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The Nothing That Is Not There and the Nothing That Is
| September 3, 2014 In Praise of Nothing is both an interesting and a frustrating book. It’s interesting in its attempt to write a postmodern memoir. It’s frustrating, however, because it does not fulfill the reader’s conventional expectations of coherence and meaning. Postmodern thinkers, such as Roland Barthes, are highly skeptical of the idea of human agency and would also doubt the coherence of the self. They believe the idea that a human being who is a psychologically whole and stable person is largely fictionalized. Therefore, LeMay has written an unstable memoir.
Editor's Notes, Volume 16, Number 1
| August 28, 2014 We at River Teeth talk a lot about what the journal has meant to us during our first fifteen years. What we’ve discovered doesn’t surprise us now, but it would have fifteen years ago. It’s the people: the people we’ve met, the people we’ve published, the people who came of age as creative nonfiction writers reading River Teeth. It’s all pretty damn humbling, to be sure.
Essaying a Spinning World
| August 1, 2014 Much of what Skloot deems "off-kilter" seems the kind of emotional imbalance with which we can all identify.
The Inner World of Caregiving
| July 1, 2014 If caregiving was a compass and sainthood was at zero degrees north, The Fifth Season would orient us due south.
Going Long, It's Tense, Research, Getting Connected, Reflection, Naming and more from #RTNC2014
June 27, 2014 Snippets, snapshots, and video from the River Teeth Nonfiction Conference
Growing the Soil and the Soul: On Richard Gilbert's SHEPHERD
| June 1, 2014 Sometimes a memoir, spilling into the ken of autobiography, must grapple with an author’s lifelong enigma—his book’s story, the story. As we read, we feel this cyclonic summing-up, the best chance after the life (or as far as the life has got) to say what, in particular, shaped that life’s core meaning. Perhaps the revelation is that we don’t get another go-round (obvious but important), that we never knew the storm was gathering while it happened (as much good as bad), and that the life we thought we lived was not exactly the one we did live (the new self the memoir discloses to its surprised narrator). Such is the case with Richard Gilbert’s book, Shepherd.
Why We're Here: Third Annual River Teeth Nonfiction Conference
| May 22, 2014 For as intimate and vulnerable as the writing process is, the process of sending my work out into the world for possible publication feels like the most distant and impersonal interaction there is between writer and reader. And yet, what is publishing our words except engaging in a broader conversation, contributing one voice to a river of voices?
Podcast Interview with Jackie Valley
| April 24, 2014 Jackie Valley is a reporter at the Las Vegas Sun. Just about one year ago, she published a seven-part series called “Grace Through Grief.” The series followed Arturo Martinez and his two young sons as they dealt with the brutal murder of their wife and daughter, their mother and sister.
Podcast Interview with Eva Holland
| April 17, 2014 Eva Holland's story "Chasing Alexander Supertramp" looks at the increasing number of people who make the pilgrimage to the bus where Christopher McCandless of Into the Wild Fame died. The hike to that bus includes a dangerous crossing of the Teklanika River in Alaska, and continues to strand hikers on a regular basis, and sometimes claim lives.
Podcast Interview with Ben Montgomery
| April 9, 2014 In this podcast, Matt Tullis talks with Ben Montgomery, enterprise reporter at the Tampa Bay Times and the author of Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail.
Keywords: ben montgomery, gangrey, interview, literary journalism, matt tullis, podcast |
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Podcast Interview with Wil S. Hylton
| March 13, 2014 Wil S. Hylton is the author of Vanished, about the modern-day search for one American bomber that crashed over the Pacific Islands during World War II. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and his work has been featured in Harpers, GQ, Esquire and Rolling Stone, among many others magazines.
Keywords: gangrey, journalism, longform, matt tullis, podcast, wil s. hylton |
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Podcast Interview with Mike Sager
| February 17, 2014 Mike Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter who has been called the beat poet of American journalism.
Editor's Notes Volume 15 Number 2
| January 29, 2014 ...We prowl for edgy, compelling nonfiction, crafting volumes that regularly make our readers take an extra breath and blink....
Podcast with Chris Jones
| January 22, 2014 On the most recent Gangrey: The Podcast, Matt Tullis interviews Chris Jones, writer-at-large for Esquire and back-page columnist for ESPN The Magazine.
28 Days of Beautiful Things
January 15, 2014 In the month of February, River Teeth will feature excerpts from Michelle Webster-Hein's essay, "Beautiful Things," which appeared in River Teeth 15.1.
Podcast with Michael Kruse
| January 7, 2014 On the most recent Gangrey: The Podcast, Matt Tullis talks with Michael Kruse, staff writer on the enterprise team at the Tampa Bay Times about his three-part series titled "The Last Voyage of the Bounty."
Podcast with Jeanne Marie Laskas
| November 26, 2013 On the most recent Gangrey: The Podcast, Matt Tullis talks with Jeanne Marie Laskas, a correspondent for GQ and the director of The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Stealth Memoir: Writing Your Life Between the Lines
November 26, 2013 In this presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference, Michelle Herman discusses "The Stealth Memoir: Writing Your Life Between the Lines," a conversation about combining your personal narrative with subject matter beyond your immediate life story.
Podcast with John Woodrow Cox
| November 14, 2013 Matt Tullis interviews John Woodrow Cox about his feature stories, "Dispatches from Next Door," a series for the Floridian magazine.
Search and Research: A Discovery Process
October 31, 2013 In this presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference, Hope Edelman and Sonya Huber discuss "Search and Research: A Discovery Process," a conversation about research in essay and in memoir, how each writer approaches research, and techniques for researching.
Wright Thompson
| October 31, 2013 In this podcast, Matt Tullis talks with Wright Thompson, a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.
Janet Reitman on "Jahar's World"
| October 8, 2013 In this podcast, Matt Tullis interviews Janet Reitman, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about her story "Jahar's World," from the July 2013 issue of Rolling Stone.
Keywords: gangrey, jahar's world, janet reitman, journalism, matt tullis, podcast, rolling stone |
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Jason Fagone on "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?"
| September 25, 2013 Matt Tullis interviews Jason Fagone, whose most recent story in Philadelphia magazine was about a cancer researcher who has found a way to treat leukemia using genetically modified T-cells.
"Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw": Character Formation in Traumatic Nonfiction
| August 28, 2013 ...I want to rekindle our desire for the complex truth of a written life. To do so, I wish to refocus our attention to what I believe matters about nonfiction, particularly nonfiction about trauma. I would never argue that facts don’t matter in nonfiction ... Yet I hope to prove that what really counts is the tangible human presence outside the text that competes with the nonfiction character inside the text.
Luke Dittrich and "The Prophet"
| August 25, 2013 In this podcast, Matt Tullis interviews Luke Dittrich about the story "The Prophet," published by Esquire.
The Art of Mulling: Steven Harvey and Kate Hopper
August 22, 2013 Over the next couple of months, we'll feature a presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference.
Stephen Rodrick and "The Misfits"
| July 23, 2013 In this podcast, Matt Tullis interviews Stephen Rodrick about the cover story "The Misfits," also called "This is what happens when you cast Lindsay Lohan in your movie" on The New York Times Magazine online.
Keywords: gangrey, journalism, lindsay lohan, matt tullis, podcast, stephen rodrick, the canyons, the misfits
Editor's Notes, Volume 15, Number 1
| June 28, 2013 In the keynote address of the second annual River Teeth Nonfiction Conference, Scott Russell Sanders encouraged the audience of over 80 to write about where they are because, “Your place probably needs your art.”
Brian Mockenhaupt and "The Living and the Dead"
| May 21, 2013 During the River Teeth Nonfiction Conference this weekend, Matt Tullis, Journalism and Digital Media professor at Ashland University, interviewed Brian Mockenhaupt about his Byliner.com article, "The Living and the Dead."
Why We're Here: 2nd Annual River Teeth Conference
| May 17, 2013 The River Teeth Conference this weekend brings many writers together in one friendly little town to have a conversation about story. Their words are sure to ignite my spirit and enliven my desire to get the story I need to tell down on paper in its truest and most artistic form.
Keywords: conference, nonfiction
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