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Book Signing: David Sedaris

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On Monday 24 June, the Manchester Waterstones hosted one of my absolutely heroes: David Sedaris. In fact, Sedaris […]

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Considering: Two Essays About Reading

Cynthia Ozick’s A Drugstore in Winter Eudora Welty’s A Sweet Devouring I didn’t intend to review two essays for […]

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A Thousand Miles Away and Home: by Daniel Carpenter

This week, we’re proud to present our first ever contribution of original creative non-fiction, courtesy of Daniel Carpenter, […]

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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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