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    What’s the Story?

    Sep 01, 2020 5 minutes
    LEE GUTKIND
    Memoirists must think long and hard about the stories they write and the people their stories might affect—not just to safeguard characters, but also to protect themselves.

    I originally wrote this intro back in late February, as we were preparing to go to press with our spring issue—this issue. Then, COVID-19 suddenly changed—paralyzed—our country. For a number of weeks, we did not know when or if we could continue publishing. Thankfully, Creative Nonfiction has received help from the CARES Act, local foundations, and most significantly, our readers and students. And now, with this issue, we are back in business, so to speak, and we hope to resume our regular quarterly publishing schedule.

    , in a generous spread in the Arts section, the announced its critics’ selection of the fifty best memoirs of the past fifty years. There was no news peg—nothing

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