River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
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River Teeth is a biannual journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays and memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre and that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
4M ago
At age 70, my mother has taken up watercolor painting. In our family chat, she uploads photographs of her progress-birch trees, beachscapes, stems of lavender ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
4M ago
I discover him on my morning walk, in the yard of a brick Tudor home in my neighborhood, anchored to the dry brown lawn by wires and stakes, but nonetheless tipping forward at the waist, somewhere between mid-fall and flat-on-his-face ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
5M ago
When Steven Harvey was eleven, his mother died by suicide. Three weeks later, his father married a woman with whom he'd been having an affair. The family never spoke of her death, and for much of his life, Harvey blocked this and other bad memories of his childhood ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
5M ago
There are people stuck in cars. There's a driving ban, save essential workers. The essential workers are getting stuck and the rescue teams trying to rescue the essential workers are getting stuck, snowplows are getting stuck trying to rescue the rescue teams, and finally the city gives up ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
5M ago
Dad sat at the park picnic table smoking one Marlboro after another, with not a word of protest from my sister or me - poles apart from the week before when we snapped his whole pack in half and flushed it down the toilet ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
5M ago
After getting held up in the Y parking lot all those years ago, after the weirdness of seeing the dark circle within the approaching gun muzzle, after feeling the metal on my cheekbone, the exact spot I'd bumped with the phone receiver earlier that day ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
5M ago
The first one said honey was what Vietnamese hookers called from doorways, so don't call him that. The next one said honey was a substance to spread on bread, so why did I call him that. Store clerks in the South called all of us honey. Teachers, too, even when paddling our behinds. Oh honey, I hate to have to ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
6M ago
Part bird book, part Native Great Plains history, part meditation on the author's mixed Irish American and Lakota background, and part exploration of how cultures conceive the relationship between humans and other sentient beings, Birding While Indian ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
6M ago
Even nearly a decade on, they couldn't have known that your cognitive decline and general dislike of communications necessitated all emails come to me ..read more
River Teeth Journal | A journal of Nonfiction Narrative
6M ago
Somewhere after the turn of the millennium I slid from leaf jumper to leaf raker, and so on this smoky November afternoon I hold down my job for the boy in front of me during what will be his only non-digital hour of the day ..read more