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Considering: No Name Woman, Maxine Hong Kingston

The Considering series is a place to focus on one particularly amazing essay or short piece of non-fiction. If you’d […]

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Ninjas of Nonfiction #7: David Foster Wallace by Daniel Carpenter

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When considering the best essayists from across the Atlantic, a number of names come to mind. David Sedaris […]

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Ninjas of Nonfiction #6: Gay Talese by Benjamin Judge

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My wife has been ill. This essay was supposed to be finished days ago but my wife has […]

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Considering: The Doomed In Their Sinking, William H Gass

This week, we’re launching the Considering series, a place to focus on one particularly amazing essay or short […]

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Ninjas of Nonfiction #5: Hunter S Thompson

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This post was submitted by Dan Toller, of the excellent The Electric Typewriter archive. Thanks, Dan! I saw Fear […]

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Ninjas of Nonfiction #4: Joan Didion

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At the tender age of 22, Joan Didion won a Vogue essay contest. It was 1956, decades before […]

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Review: Shakespeare’s Wife

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“Shakespear’s Consort” depicts what Anne Hathaway may have looked like, drawn by Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1708, and appears […]

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Ninjas of Nonfiction #3: Nora Ephron

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The other night, I was out with a friend who, like me, loves Beyoncé. We were engaged in […]

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Ninjas of Nonfiction #2: David Quammen

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A writing teacher introduced me to Quammen by handing me an essay entitled, Synecdoche and the Trout. It’s […]

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