Nonfiction

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Personal Essays, Aphorisms, Memoirs, Speeches, Diaries, Sermons, Science & Nature Writing, Travel Essays, Belles Lettres, Criticism, Philosophy, Craft Essays

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A

• à Campo, J.N.F.M. Poiesis of the Past: A historian’s reading of the short story ‘Youth, a narrative’ by Joseph Conrad
• Angel, Ralph The Exile and Return of Poetry
• Anupama, A.
  • On Translating from Kuruntokai
  • Poetry’s Om
• Armstrong, Tammy Thefts, Contortions, & Yogic Breathing: Nicole Markotić’s Trickster Poetics
• Arnold, Glenn What it’s like living here [Edmonton]
• Arvidson, Adam
  • What it’s like living here [Minneapolis]
  • Nature Writing in America
  • Finding the Best Place to Submit Essays by Reading Best American Essays
• Aubrey, Kim
  • What it’s like living here [Toronto]
  • What it’s like living here [Saskatoon, Saskatchewan]
  • We Flew Kites, a Bermuda Childhood
  • Bermuda Voices, Island Writers
• Axelrod, Steven
  • What it’s like living here [Nantucket]
  • Childhood
  • My First Job
  • The Parkinson’s Diaries
  • Escape and Escapism: The Jane Whitefield Novels of Thomas Perry
  • Shaken Not Stirred
  • The Author Who Invented James Bond

B

• Balgach, Martin Move it or Lose it
• Barber, Phyllis Dancing with the Sacred
• Bauer, Tom Childhood
• Bellamy, Joe David from Kindred Spirits
• Berbenuik, Brianna
  • Shooting Guns
  • Let’s See Them Top That
  • In Hell We Will All Burn Brightly: Bret Easton Ellis’s Empire vs. Post-Empire
  • We’re the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World, or: You’re Doing It Wrong – The Fight Club Identity Crisis
  • We Are Meat Machines: A Meditation on Death & Dying
• Bernstein, Samantha We’ve All Gone to Look for America
• Bernstein, Sarah The Boundless Chaos of Living Speech: On Homophonic Translation
• Berry, Michelle
  • What it’s like living here [Peterborough, Ontario]
  • Childhood
• Blakeslee, Vanessa Shades and Mirrors: Character Gradation as a Demand of Resonance in the Novel
• Blood, Liz
  • What it’s like living here [Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea]
  • Childhood
• Botha, Danila What it’s like living here [Toronto]
• Brown, Fleda
  • Books Made of Paper
  • Unruffled
• Brown, Laura Catherine
  • What it’s like living here [Manhattan]
  • When Bright Faith Dissolves: Essay & Mandala
• Bryson, Michael
  • Sontag & Kael: Criticism as Demolition?
  • Kate O’Rourke, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett: Wait & Party

C

• Carmona Rodríguez, Pedro I Am a Landscape of Desire: Gender, Genre and the Deconstruction of the Textuality of Empire in Douglas Glover’s Elle
• Carpenter, David Getting Carried Away: Memoir
• Chung, Jeanie What it’s like living here [Chicago]
• Clothier, Christy
  • from Trail of Breadcrumbs: Why I Joined and Left the US Navy
  • Into the Looking Glass
• Cogan, Carrie What it’s like living here [Salt Spring Island, British Columbia]
• Ian Colford
  • The Author and the EBook
  • My Search for Jesus Hardwell, Profile & Interview by Ian Colford
  • Small Things Define: A Profile of Tess Wiley
• Cowdy, Cheryl
  • Becoming-masks: The Life and Times of Captain N. at n – 1 Dimensions
  • Lines of Flight: Novels, Nets, Turnips & Nomads (with Douglas Glover)
  • Mississauga: Cadence of Desire and Return, A Childhood Geografictione)
• Curtis, Paul M. Revisiting Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet

D

• Day, Robert
  • Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: John Ashbery and Tadeusz Różewicz
  • A Mother I Cannot Find Again: Memoir
• Dayson, Sion
  • An Alien Feeling (What it’s like living here [Paris])
  • Letter from Paris: Life Lessons in Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Donovan, Mary What it’s like living here [Wheaton, Maryland]
• Dreifus, Erika Keeping Silent? Writing Fiction after September 11

E

• Eimers, Nancy Charmed Objects: Poetry and Childhood
• Ekman, John We Feed Horses in the Hopes that the Lowly Sparrows Might (eventually) Benefit

F

• Farrell, Richard
  • Degenerates, Monks, and Writers
  • Invitation to a Reshredding
  • Unintentional Pugilism
  • VCFA MFA in Writing Graduation Address
  • What it’s like living here [San Diego, California]
  • Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work
  • Will, Kate & Osama: Jean Baudrillard on Royal Weddings and the Death of bin Laden
  • About Face: On Class Reunions and Reading Salter
  • Almost Independence Day
  • On Courage
  • Into the Realm of the Dark
  • On a Writer Dying Young
  • Childhood
• Fisher, Melissa My First Job [Winner of the 2012 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize, judged by Gish Jen]
• Fogel, Stanley ¿Que Coño Pasa? Snapshots of my Wonderful Cuban Life
• Foley, Eric Look at the Camera, A Journey through Childhood’s Photographic Space
• Frandina, Danielle What it’s like living here [San Francisco]
• Frutkin, Mark From Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously

G

• Gataveckas, Noah
  • Why do we burn books? or, The burning question of our movement
  • Professor O’Blivion Rides Again
• Giovarelli, Renee What it’s like living here [Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan]
• Glass, Jill The Use of Moralized Cityscape in Los Angeles Literature
• Glover, Douglas
  • Introduction to Acquainted with Absence
  • Rat Death & Dickens
  • On Victoria Redel’s Swoon
  • On Love & Books (a diary entry)
  • Long Point, A Geography of the Soul
• Glover, Jacob
  • On Kierkegaard
  • On Spinoza
  • On Montaigne
  • Herbert Marcuse: Believing in Ghosts As a Way Toward Philosophy
  • What if God is One of Us? A Note on Derrida
  • The Cosmic Conversation, A Note on Plato’s Timaeus
• Glover, Jonah
  • The Eunuch
  • Talking to a 17-Year-Old Girl When you are a 16-Year-Old Boy
  • Library Romance: Micromemoir
• Gottleib, Alma & Graham, Philip The Madman and the Seismograph: From Braided Worlds
• Green, Brad
  • What it’s like living here [Denton, Texas]
  • Childhood
• Gunn, Genni Tracks: An Italian Memoir

H

• Hartshorn, Richard
  • Wings Over Arda Film Diary
  • The Man With No Name Rides Into The Classroom: A Review of Detachment
• Hemley, Robin The Columbus Syndrome Redux
• Heer, Jeet Canadians in the Attic (on Hugh Kenner)
• Heighton, Steven The Devil’s Dictionary for Writers
• Helwig, Maggie Now the Green Blade Rises
• Hiscock, Bruce An Awesome Proposal
• Hodgins, Jack
  • Faulkner Mississippi: April 1982
  • The Ice Man Experience: Sculpture & Words by Tyler & Jack Hodgins
• Hood, Andrew Writing Before God: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard

J-K

• Jackson, Richard Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator
• Johnson, Anna Maria & Steven David Johnson
  • What it’s like living here [Cootes Store, Virginia]
  • Riffing on Whirlpools
  • The Quirky Bird Art of Paula Swisher
  • James Agee’s Unconventional Use of Colons
  • A Visual Approach to Syntactical and Image Patterns in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Essay & Images
• Karasick, Adeena The Un-creation of the Wor(l)d: Conceptual Poetry as Kabbalistic Trope
• Kast, Maggie Symbols: Forest of Ambiguity
• Kaufman, Allison What it’s like living here (Connecticut)
• Keane, Patrick J.
  • Convergences: Memories Involving The Waste Land Manuscript,
  • Rintrah
  • Eternal Recurrence: The Permanent Relevance of William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming”
  • Chiaroscuro: A Memoir
  • Leaving the Zoo: A Fictional Memoir
  • The Senses of an Ending: The Grapes of Wrath, Novel and Film
  • A Poetry of Petition: W. B. Yeats’s “The Stare’s Nest by my Window” and Derek Mahon’s “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”
  • Mountain Visions and Imaginative Usurpations
  • The Ambiguous Legacy of Nietzsche
• Kharouf, Jacqueline Building the Maddening Dream: Techniques for Constructing & Conveying Fictional Worlds
• Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn My Owls

L

• Lababidi, Yahia Flirting With Disaster: Aphorisms
• Larios, Julie Who Am I? What the Lowly Riddle Reveals
• Lea, Sydney
  • Weathers and Places
  • Unskunked
  • Becoming a Poet: A Way to Know
  • A Short Sad Story
  • Pony and Graveyard: A Dream of the Flesh
• Lefer, Diane
  • What it’s like living here [Los Angeles]
  • Writing Instruction as a Social Practice: or What I Did (and Learned) in Barrancabermeja
  • Letter From Bolivia: Days and Nights in Cochabamba
  • Letter from Bolivia: Carnaval de Oruro
• Lerena, María Jesús Hernáez Narrative Genres and THE ADMINISTRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS: The Case of Daisy Goodwill’s Rebellion
• Levé, Edouard Autoportrait
• Loecher, Anne From Smallness to Greatness: The Forgotten Poetry of Lorine Niedecker
• Lucarelli, Jason The Consecution of Gordon Lish: An Essay on Form and Influence
• Lupinetti, Mark Where Are Today’s Steinbecks?

M

• Madden, Patrick Essay as Evolutionary Advantage (après Borges)
• Maillard, Keith
  • from Fatherless
  • Kilroy, A Writer’s Childhood
• Marchand, Philip Tainted Success and the Heroes of Martin Scorsese
• Marden, Julie There’s a Theme for You (on thematic passage technique in Chekhov short stories)
• Marten, Harry Healing Waters: Memoir
• Martin, Cynthia Newberry
  • What it’s like living here [Columbus, Georgia]
  • Childhood
• Martin, Rebecca Techniques of Emotional Representation and the Construct of the Self in Three Short Stories
• Martin, Rick Childhood: Essay in Writing Myself
• McCahill, Kate On White
• Merrigan, Court What it’s like living here [Torrington, Wyoming], Childhood
• Merritt, Donigan What it like living here [Patagonia, Argentina]
• Milan, Joe Ghost City: What It’s Like Living Here — Joe Milan in Seoul, Korea
• Mullins, Gwen
  • Plot Structure in Short Stories
  • What it’s like living here [Chattanooga]
• Mullins, Hilary
  • Hear My Call
  • Hurricane Irene—What It Was Like, from Hilary Mullins in Bethel, Vermont
  • The Divine Imagination: Sermon
  • Elephants Can Remember

O-Q

• Olding, Susan A Rake’s Progress
• Oliveira, Robin
  • The Book Tour Diary
  • What it’s like living here [Seattle]
  • Character Gradation and Coherence: An Examination of Novels by Jane Austen, Anne Tyler and Mark Haddon
• Olsen, William On the Prayerful in Poetry
• Paul, Jacob David Grossman’s See Under: Love
• Powell, Garry Craig How to Write an Essay
• Proctor, John
  • Burroughs & Son
  • What it’s like living here [New York]
  • The Immortality of the Crab
  • The Answer I Found in a Fortune Cookie: Toward a Digital Conception of Nonfiction
• Quarmby, Lynne
  • What it’s like living here [West Vancouver]
  • Stem Cells and the Fountain of Youth
  • Reasons to Rejoice in Green Algae
  • Chatting with ET: Dialogue between The Actual and The Possible
  • A Feeling for the Model Organism

   

• Quist, Donald What It’s Like Living Here (Bangkok)

R

• Raffel, Dawn
  • from The Secret Life of Objects
  • Essays from The Secret Life of Objects
• Reuther, Kate What it’s like living here (a charticle) [New York]
• Rickert, Mary Angel on Fire: The Gothic World of Sophie’s Choice
• Roney, Lisa What It’s Like Living Here (Orlando)
• Ross, Rob Stray Dog Poetics: Found Poetry from Shane Rhodes
• Russell, Laura-Rose There’s a Reason They Call it Show AND Tell: How to Reveal Thoughts, Emotions, and Motivations Without Sentimentality

S

• Saporito, Jean-Marie
  • Letter from Taos: Too Horrible, Too Beautiful
  • Letter from Taos: Cowgirls Ride the Trail of Truth
• Sarkissian, Natalia
  • What it’s like living here [Milan]
  • What it’s like living here [Milan]
  • Quality Time on the Bay of Silence
  • Sestri Levante
  • Missing Dad
  • A Letter  from Italy
  • On the Hunt for Elusive Literary Game: the Premio Bagutta, Italy’s Oldest Literary Prize
  • Sabah Al Khair Habibti
  • Egypt After the Revolution
  • My First Job
  • Egypt After the Revolution 2
  • The Sky Is Red at Bordeaux
  • Tahrir Square, August 2011
  • Siena’s Palio: A Medieval Horserace Turns Viral
  • Postcards from Italy: Lake Como
  • L’Immacolata: The Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Liguria, Italy
  • The Feast of Sacrifice: Eid-al-Adha at Alexandria, Egypt
  • Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, and Old Cairo
  • Gauteng and the Cape Peninsula: Encountering South Africa
  • Revisiting Tahrir Square: Photographs & Text
  • Highs & Lows on the Bay of Fundy
  • The 19th Century & Milan’s Duomo: A Collage of Impressions and Photographs
  • Death By Oranges: Ivrea at Carnival
• Scott, Sophfronia White Shirts
• Seltzer, Sarah What it’s like living here [New York]
• Shapiro, Shelagh What it’s like living here [Burlington, Vermont]
• Shklovsky, Viktor From Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar by Viktor Shklovsky, Translated by Shushan Avagyan
• Sholl, Betsy The Dark Speech of Silence Laboring: Osip Mandelstam’s Poems & Translations
• Smith, Jordan The Battleship of Maine
• Stagg, Erin
  • The Mind’s Eye – Character Thought in Fiction
  • What It’s Like Living Here [Dunedin, New Zealand]
• Stansberry, Domenic Noir Manifesto
• Stasiuk, Andrzej Rite of Spring from Dukla
• Stein, Mary
  • Another Way to Fill an Empty Room: The Voice of Amy Hempel’s Aesthetic
  • Mucking Up the Landscape: Poetic Tendencies in Prose
• Stone, Bruce
  • Black Boxes: On Reading Jennifer Egan’s Twitter Story
  • Nabokov’s Exoneration: The Genesis and Genius of Lolita
• Storring, Nathan The Struggle for the Centre: One City’s Adventure With Modernity

T

• Tuon, Bunkong On Fathers, Losses, and Other Influences

U

• Ullman, Leslie A “Dark Star” Passes Through It

V-W

• Vivian, Robert
  • Thoughts on the Meditative Essay
  • The Essay As An Open Field
• Volke, Liam What It’s Like Living Here (Victoria, British Columbia)
• Von Rosk, Laura
  • What it’s like living in Antarctica—from Laura Von Rosk at McMurdo Station
  • More Adventures at the Bottom of the World
• Voorsanger, Wendy
  • Exploration of the Poem Painting and More
  • Searching for a Literary Burning Man
• Warrell, Laura K. Race & Art in America: The Invisible Man meets Django Unchained
• Westra, Adam
  • A Critical Review of Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop
  • Westra, Adam & Haijo Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Menippean Satire
• Westra, Haijo & Adam Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Menippean Satire
• Whetter, Darryl ‘His Word against Mine’: Envy, Friendship and the Novel
• Wilder, Cheryl What it’s like living here [Raleigh, North Carolina]
• Winter-Schorr, Tiara
  • What It’s Like Living Here [Manhattan]
  • Childhood

   

• Working, Russell Zola’s Horse: Using a Reporter’s Techniques to Strengthen Fiction and Creative Nonfiction