Spring 2013: Deep Into Nature

My Inner Nature

Editor's Note by Martha Nichols

You don’t need to love living in the wild to be a good nature writer. 'Loving nature' or feeling awed by it can be a literary handicap.

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.

Columns

Bookstores, Nothing but the Toth : The Public Library Was My Bookstore by Emily Toth

Media Debate, Bookstores, Talking Indie : Why Bookstores Aren’t Helping Indie Authors—Yet by David Biddle

Grief, Yawping Wild, Writing Groups : An Unexpected Hero’s Journey by Steven Lewis

Theme for this Issue

Memoir, Nature, Travel : Green Among the Bones by Marc Schiffman

Memoir, Nature : The Petrel by Douglas Canter

Flash Nonfiction, Nature : A Poet in the Biosphere by Kathryn Winograd

Reader's Life, Nature, About Memoir : I Hear the Woods Beating by Theresa Williams

Memoir, Nature : Alivio by Inez Holger

Memoir, Nature, Sex : King of the Lake by Jeremiah Horrigan

Personal Stories

Authors, Writer's Life : Enough With the Copy by Christine Grimaldi

Memoir, Bookstores : Playing God—With Books by Lisa Solod

Memoir, Bookstores : Memories Matter More Than Bookstores by Jai Arjun Singh

Memoir : Life on Park Street by Robert Boucheron

Memoir, Family Stories : She's Leaving Home by Fran Cronin

Poetry

Featured Poetry : Dawn McGuire: Two Poems by Dawn McGuire

Featured Poetry : Mary Cresswell: Two Poems by Mary Cresswell

Why I Write

Why I Write, Grief : Boston: Why I Keep Revising by Martha Nichols

Why I Write, Distraction : Me, Writing by Patricia Dubrava

Why I Write : Listening by Athena Kildegaard

Why I Write, Travel : The Art of Relocation by Trina Gaynon

Art

Mixed Media, Grief : Coming to Terms: TW Writers on Grief by TW Editors

Photography, Nature : All Creatures by Mary Dineen

Graphic Arts, Nature : 36 Views at the Seawall by Susan Denniston

Photography, Family Stories, Nature : Fragile Beauty by Cynthia Staples

Interviews

Teaching, Featured Interview, About Fiction : J. Robert Lennon: “Literary Fiction Is a Genre, Too” by Lorraine Berry

Becoming a Writer : Theresa Williams on Writing by Kelcey Parker

Featured Interview, Nature : Terry Tempest Williams: “Silence Is Where We Locate Our Voice” by Lorraine Berry

Trends and Reviews

Screen Time : Nick, Old Sport, Would You Just Shut Up? by John Michael Bell

Media Debate, Diversity : What Should We Do About Wikipedia? by Martha Nichols, Lorraine Berry

Media Debate : Thank You, Apple, for Going to Court Over E-Books by David Biddle, Martha Nichols