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Creative Nonfiction/ Essays

Creative Nonfiction/ Essays

CREATIVE NONFICTION/ ESSAYS

"Hemingway's Paris--A Moveable Feast Revisited" (article/). The World & I, Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1990.

"Who Do We Think We Are?" (essay). Associated Writing Programs Chronicle, September 1990.

"Of Miracles, Faith, and Family--The Veneration of the Virgin in Poland" (article/essay). The World & I, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1991.

"The Old Country in a New Age" (article/essay). Family heritage in post- revolution Poland. The World & I, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 1991.

"Do You Ever Make Up Your Own Stories?" (essay with excerpt from ms. novel Pacifico). Hawai'i Review, Fall 1991.

"The Author Reinvents Himself--the of Tim O'Brien" (critical essay). The World & I, Vol. 7, No. 8, August 1992.

"What Do We Believe? The American Writer's Search for Values" (essay). The World & I, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1992.

"The Calm of the Sea" (personal essay). Carolina Style, Premiere Issue, 1994.

"Death With Dignity" (personal essay). Raise the Issues. Carol Numrich, ed. White Plains: Longman in association with National Public Radio, 1994.

"The Great American War Novels" (essay on classic World War II novels by Norman Mailer, James Jones, Saul Bellow, and others). The World & I, Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1995.

"Moving Story" (An encounter with William Styronís Sophieís Choice while working as a long-haul trucker for North American Van Lines). of Passage, David Perkins, ed. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press/ The News and Observer Books, 1996.

"Down to the Sea." Close to Homeñ Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors, John F. Blair, 1996.

"A Novel Citizen" (essay/review). The World & I, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 1996.

"Maria" (personal essay). Grand Tour, Spring 1996.

"Live Ammo in the Literary Canon" (essay/ review). The World & I, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1997. "Creating Discoveries for " (Article adapted from a in Creative Nonfiction). Writer’s Digest, Feb. 1997.

"Testimonials of Delight and Reason" (essay/review). The World & I, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1998.

"God, the Mysterious Stranger" (essay/review). The World & I, Vol. 13, No. 3, March 1998.

"What They Donít Tell You About Hurricanes" (personal essay). Creative Nonfiction, No. 11, Fall 1998; reprinted in the anthology Eye of the Storm, Coastal Carolina Press, Spring 2000.

"The Mad Maximalist Strikes Again" (essay/review). The World & I, Vol. 14, No. 3, March 1999.

"An Architecture of Light: Structuring the Novel and the Short Story Collections" (essay/chapter). Creating Fiction AWP/Story Press 1999.

"Facing Eternity Alone: Ernest Hemingway, man and writer, is a study in contradictions" (essay). The World & I, Vol. 14, No. 11, Nov. 1999.

"Writing Creative Nonfiction." (Article adapted from chapter in Creative Nonfiction) The Writerís Guide to Creativity, Vol. 25.

"Cape Fear: Historic Gateway to the Atlantic." (Article) Wildlife in North Carolina, Nov. 1999.

"Rebuilding Turtle Harbour." (Personal essay) Our State, Vol. 67, No. 8, Jan. 2000.

"Hardball" (personal essay). River Teeth, a journal of nonfiction, Ashland Univ., Winter 2000. Reprinted in Baseball--the American National Pastime in and Art, edited by David Colbert, Time Life Books, 2001.

"The Family Who Lived in the River" (personal essay). Fourth Genre, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2001, 86-87.

"The Paranoid Nurse" (personal essay). The Best of Brevity/ Creative Nonfiction 27: Writing It Short, 2005.

"Adventures in Celestial Navigation" (personal essay). Creative Nonfiction; reprinted in In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, edited by Lee Gutkind with an introduction by Annie Dillard. W. W. Norton, 2005.

"More Things In Heaven and Earth." "Bear Country." The Chautauqua Literary Review (now Chautauqua), Issue 4, 2006.

"The Speaking Creature" (essay). Ecotone: The Evolution Issue, Vol. 4, Nos. 1- 2. 2008.

"Chautauqua: A Moveable Feast" (introductory essay). Chautauqua, Issue 5: 20th Anniversary of the Chautauqua Writers' Center, 2008.

"The Fact Behind the Facts, or How You Can Get It All Right and Still Get It All Wrong" (craft essay). Brevity, Issue 27, May 2008: http://www.creativenonfiction. org/brevity/craft/craft_gerard_26.html

"Three Portraits of Grace" (essay). The Louisville Review, Spalding University, Number 65, Spring 2009. Notable essay in Best American Essays. Also available in Holocaust: A Literary Remembrance, a fine arts chapbook available from the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC.

"The Ancient Art of Storytelling" (introductory essay). Chautauqua, Issue 6: Stories & Storytelling, 2009.

"Words & Music, Mind & Spirit" (introductory essay). Chautauqua, Issue 7: Words & Music, 2010.