In an effort to stave off breakdown, writer, critic and editor of the (now sadly defunct) Bookslut Jessa […]
Ninjas of Nonfiction
If you want to write creative non-fiction, please read Kathleen Jamie. Why? Because she’s a poet. Forget daffodils. […]
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was a nice, privately-educated girl from California. Then she went to Europe and her […]
In my mind Susan Orlean and Malcolm Gladwell are the power couple of narrative nonfiction. I am not […]
When considering the best essayists from across the Atlantic, a number of names come to mind. David Sedaris […]
My wife has been ill. This essay was supposed to be finished days ago but my wife has […]
This post was submitted by Dan Toller, of the excellent The Electric Typewriter archive. Thanks, Dan! I saw Fear […]
At the tender age of 22, Joan Didion won a Vogue essay contest. It was 1956, decades before […]
The other night, I was out with a friend who, like me, loves Beyoncé. We were engaged in […]
A writing teacher introduced me to Quammen by handing me an essay entitled, Synecdoche and the Trout. It’s […]