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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 226x149x22 mm, kaal: 500 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2020
  • Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press
  • ISBN-10: 0826361390
  • ISBN-13: 9780826361394
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 226x149x22 mm, kaal: 500 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2020
  • Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press
  • ISBN-10: 0826361390
  • ISBN-13: 9780826361394
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Nationally recognized River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has published a host of new and significant voices in creative nonfiction--including essays, memoir, and literary journalism--since 1999. To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time favorite essays published in River Teeth in this stunning collection. Essays include up-and-coming authors as well as luminaries such as Ann Hood, Lee Martin, Chris Offutt, Angela Morales, Brenda Miller, Judith Kitchen, Ted Kooser, and Andre Dubus III. River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction further includes a thoughtful foreword by Robert Atwan that illuminates the importance, breadth, and reach of the journal and shows the diversity of nonfiction writing available in the twenty-first century. A trailblazing publication since its inception, River Teeth continues to share the important work of contemporary writers and will thrive for years to come.



To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time favorite essays published in River Teeth in this stunning collection.
Foreword ix
Robert Atwan
Introduction xv
Joe Mackall
Daniel W. Lehman
Breath
1(7)
Judith Kitchen
Small Rooms in Time
8(6)
Ted Kooser
Black Marks
14(2)
Sydney Lea
The Book of Knowledge
16(23)
Steve Harvey
Riding in the Dark
39(7)
Angela Morales
Triage
46(10)
Jon Kerstetter
The Clearwater
56(14)
Kim Barnes
As a Boy I Dreamed Often of a Tiger
70(3)
Joe Wilkins
Standing Naked in a Pool of Her Clothing
73(10)
Mary Haug
Someone Else
83(5)
Chris Offutt
Heart Sounds
88(15)
Lee Martin
Telephone
103(13)
Julie Marie Wade
Brenda Miller
Love & Fury
116(7)
Richard Hoffman
Among Women
123(10)
Jessie Van Eerden
Valmiki's Palm
133(22)
David James Duncan
Do Not Read Out Loud
155(2)
Laurie Rachkus Uttich
Playfulness: A Note
157(7)
Brian Doyle
Notes toward the Definition of an Essay
164(8)
Robert Atwan
Writing & Publishing a Memoir: What in the Hell Have I Done?
172(19)
Andre Dubus III
Tall, Straight Sisters
191(3)
Jessica Lind Peterson
By Force, Threat, or Deception
194(19)
Joe Mackall
The Best Fried Chicken
213(5)
Ann Hood
Dog Days
218(10)
Sam Pickering
Good Guys
228(23)
Maureen Stanton
Daughter of a Gun
251(13)
Sara Curtis
Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw: Character Formation in Traumatic Nonfiction
264(14)
Daniel W. Lehman
Captain Love
278(4)
Jerald Walker
Going Back to Plum Island
282(24)
Jill Christman
Drowning Catfish
306(4)
Jason Tucker
Mirrored Transoms
310(8)
Fleda Brown
A Pilgrimage to Dennis Hopper
318(11)
Ron Clinton Smith
Acknowledgments 329(2)
Contributors 331
Joe Mackall is a retired professor of English, the former director of creative writing at Ashland University, and a founder of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. He is also the author of The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage and Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish.

Daniel W. Lehman is a Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Ashland University and a founder of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. He is also the author of Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction over the Edge and John Reed and the Writing of Revolution.