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Category: Nonfiction

Sault Ste. Marie: A River and Two Cities with One Name
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

Sault Ste. Marie: A River and Two Cities with One Name

February 6, 2014February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. When Hemingway dipped his hook in these waters the First World War was not two years over. Prohibition had just begun in the United States and the ferryboat between …

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DOLTON, ILLINOIS: My … kind of town?
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

DOLTON, ILLINOIS: My … kind of town?

February 4, 2014February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project.  When you find yourself approaching the vicinity of a popular national retailer such as Walgreens, and a pair of bulbs are blown on its massive red cursive letters so …

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CLEVELAND: ALISSA NUTTING IS NOT A DIRTY GIRL
Interviews

CLEVELAND: ALISSA NUTTING IS NOT A DIRTY GIRL

January 27, 2014February 17, 2020

Michael Heaton sits down with Alissa Nutting, author of “Tampa.” An excerpt from the Fall 2013 issue.  Michael Heaton: This book is pure filth. Yes or no? Alissa Nutting: Gauging the purity of filth strikes me as a difficult task. …

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CHICAGO: Beverly
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

CHICAGO: Beverly

January 27, 2014February 21, 2020

An excerpt from Fall 2013 issue by Dmitry Samarov I’ve never lived in a place where you couldn’t hear the neighbors moving around above your head or under your feet. I’ve never lived in a place with a lawn, nor …

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CLEVELAND: CPT and “Rusted Heart Broadcast”
Essays / Nonfiction

CLEVELAND: CPT and “Rusted Heart Broadcast”

January 27, 2014September 23, 2020

An excerpt from the Spring 2013 issue by Carolyn Jack Most people who’ve written about Cleveland Public Theater over the last 30 or so years have undoubtedly used pens or typewriters or computers. But it might more appropriate to switch to seismographs, because …

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MICHIGAN: THE SIGNS OF WHITMORE LAKE
Narrative Map Project / Nonfiction

MICHIGAN: THE SIGNS OF WHITMORE LAKE

January 27, 2014February 21, 2020

This essay is part of the Great Lakes Review’s Narrative Map project. The sign greeting motorists says, “Welcome to Whitmore Lake,” set inside a Bob Ross painting of trees and water. I hear the 1973 township board meeting approving the sign. …

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