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Podcast with Chris Jones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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?"

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
...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"

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

Over the next couple of months, we'll feature a presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference.
Stephen Rodrick and "The Misfits"

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

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"

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

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
Jesse Lichtenstein and "Do we really want to live without the post office?"

Podcast interview with Jesse Lichtenstein. Jesse Lichtenstein wrote the story, "Do we really want to live without the post office" for the February issue of Esquire. In the story, Lichtenstein follows mail through the postal process in an effort to understand how it can get from one end of the country to the other for a scant 43 cents.
Kelley Benham French Discusses "Never let go"

In this podcast interview, Matt Tullis talks to Kelley Benham French about her story, "Never let go," which is about the birth of her daughter. Juniper French was born at 23 weeks, six days and weighed one pound, four ounces.
Editor's Notes, Volume 14 Number 2

Are there too many memoirs out there? Are too many being written? Is enough, enough? After all, for the last twenty-five years we’ve read memoirs on every conceivable subject. Some great, some good, some fair, some poor.
Keywords: 14-2
What Is Creative Nonfiction?
Enough already. We’re so weary of that question. Those questions: What do you mean by “creative”? Isn’t all writing creative? And isn’t “non-” weird, too? Why not Non-Poetry? Or Non-Refrigerator-Repair-Manuals, since “non-” is anything that a thing isn’t?
An Interview with Pamela Coloff about "The Innocent Man"

In November and December of 2012, Texas Monthly Magazine published the story "The Innocent Man." The two-part series, reported and written by Pamela Colloff, tells the story of Michael Morton, a young husband and father who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife in 1987.
"The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever" Interview with Michael J. Mooney

In this podcast, Matt Tullis, Journalism Professor at Ashland University, interviews Michael J. Mooney about his piece in D Magazine, "The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever," which has garnered attention as one of the best pieces of nonfiction in 2012.
Keywords: cnf, creative nonfiction, journalism, matt tullis, michael j mooney, podcast |
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Do Not Read Out Loud
Laurie Uttich teamed up with Sean Ironman to create this video of "Do Not Read Out Loud," from River Teeth 14.1.
Matt Tullis Interviews Justin Heckert About "The Girl Who Feels No Pain"

Journalist Justin Heckert discusses his story "The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly" with Ashland University journalism professor Matt Tullis in this podcast. Heckert's story chronicles the life of 13-year-old Ashlyn Blocker, who suffers from congenital insensitivity to pain.
Keywords: interview, justin heckert, literary journalism, matt tullis, ny times, podcast |
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Reviewed: Looking for Esperanza

If James Agee’s life experience had overlapped more with the lives of his sharecropper subjects in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, he might have been able to produce a book like Adriana Páramo’s new work, Looking for Esperanza.
Editor's Notes, Volume 14 Number 1
It’s been an exciting stretch at River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative--highlighted by our inaugural national conference. For three days in May, writers gathered in Ohio from across the United States for readings, workshops, manuscript evaluations, and late-night skull sessions about the best of nonfiction writing and why facts matter.
Keywords: 14-1
What I Wish I Didn't Know

I don’t fault other disabled writers for writing about their conditions, and people like Nancy Mairs and Floyd Skloot have ably demonstrated that such writing can educate and engage others. So why is it that there is always a voice in my head that smirks at my essays? “Well sure,” he says. “Of course you were going to write about that.”
Annual Conference: 8,000 Writers Expected

With the 2012 AWP Conference happening in just a few days, here is Rebecca McClanahan's "Annual Conference: 8,000 Writers Expected" from River Teeth 13.2.
One Year After "A Double Life"

It has been one year since the debut of the 2010 River Teeth book prize winner, A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood by Lisa Catherine Harper. We asked Harper to share a little about her experiences winning the prize.
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