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 (April 26, 2011)
• Anupama, A. On Translating from Kuruntokai (Sept 12, 2011)
• Arnold, Glenn What it’s like living here [Edmonton] (Dec 10,2010)
• Arvidson, Adam What it’s like living here [Minneapolis] (Dec 14, 2010), Nature Writing in America (Feb 21, 2011-Jan 25, 2012)
• Aubrey, Kim What it’s like living here [Toronto] (Nov 26,2010), What it’s like living here [Saskatoon, Saskatchewan] (Mar 6, 2011), We Flew Kites, a Bermuda Childhood (Sept 14 , 2011), Bermuda Voices, Island Writers (Nov 23, 2011)
• Axelrod, Steven What it’s like living here [Nantucket] (Oct 19, 2010), Childhood (Jan 20, 2011), My First Job (July 11, 2011), The Parkinson’s Diaries (Jan 20.2012)

B

• Balgach, Martin Move it or Lose it (May 23, 2011),
• Barber, Phyllis Dancing with the Sacred (March 26, 2012)
• Bellamy, Joe David from Kindred Spirits (April 11, 2o11)
• Berbenuik, Brianna Shooting Guns (Mar 7, 2011), Let’s See Them Top That (Mar 11, 2011), In Hell We Will All Burn Brightly: Bret Easton Ellis’s Empire vs. Post-Empire (July 20, 2011), We’re the All-Singing, All-Dancing Crap of the World, or: You’re Doing It Wrong – The Fight Club Identity Crisis (Aug 23, 2011), We Are Meat Machines: A Meditation on Death & Dying (April 16, 2012)
• Bernstein, Samantha We’ve All Gone to Look for America (Jan 30, 2012)
• Berry, Michelle What it’s like living here [Peterborough, Ontario] (Jan 15, 2011), Childhood (Feb 19, 2011)
• Blakeslee, Vanessa Shades and Mirrors: Character Gradation as a Demand of Resonance in the Novel (Mar 26, 2011)
• Blood, Liz What it’s like living here [Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea] (April 30, 2011), Childhood (Dec 6, 2011)
• Botha, Danila What it’s like living here [Toronto] (Nov 7, 2011)
• Brown, Laura Catherine What it’s like living here [Manhattan] (May 6, 2011), When Bright Faith Dissolves: Essay & Mandala (March 19, 2012)
• Bryson, Michael Sontag & Kael: Criticism as Demolition? (Aug 1, 2011)

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 (Mar 3, 2011)
• Chung, Jeanie What it’s like living here [Chicago] (Jan 13, 2011)
• Clothier, Christy from Trail of Breadcrumbs: Why I Joined and Left the US Navy (Mar 19, 2011)
• Cogan, Carrie What it’s like living here [Salt Spring Island, British Columbia] (Nov 18, 2010)
• Ian Colford The Author and the EBook (Feb 10, 2011),  My Search for Jesus Hardwell, Profile & Interview by Ian Colford (Jan 17, 2012)
• Cowdy, Cheryl Becoming-masks: The Life and Times of Captain N. at n – 1 Dimensions (Nov 2, 2011); Lines of Flight: Novels, Nets, Turnips & Nomads (with Douglas Glover) (Nov 2, 2011); Mississauga: Cadence of Desire and Return, A Childhood Geografictione (Nov 29, 2011)

D

• Dayson, Sion An Alien Feeling (What it’s like living here [Paris]) (Sept 16, 2011), Letter from Paris: Life Lessons in Père Lachaise Cemetery (Jan 5, 2012)
• Donovan, Mary What it’s like living here [Wheaton, Maryland] (Mar 24, 2011)
• Dreifus, Erika Keeping Silent? Writing Fiction after September 11 (Sept 8, 2011)

E

• Eimers, Nancy Charmed Objects: Poetry and Childhood (Dec 9, 20110)
• Ekman, John We Feed Horses in the Hopes that the Lowly Sparrows Might (eventually) Benefit (Dec 21, 2010)

F

• Farrell, Richard Degenerates, Monks, and Writers (June 1, 2010), Invitation to a Reshredding (Sept 17, 2010), Unintentional Pugilism (Dec 13, 2010), VCFA MFA in Writing Graduation Address (Jan 10, 2011), What it’s like living here [San Diego, California] (Feb 16, 2011), Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work (Mar 2, 2011), Will, Kate & Osama: Jean Baudrillard on Royal Weddings and the Death of bin Laden (May 4, 2011), About Face: On Class Reunions and Reading Salter (June 19, 2011), Almost Independence Day (July 4, 2011), On Courage (Feb 10, 2012), Into the Realm of the Dark (April 23, 2012)
• Fisher, Melissa My First Job [Winner of the 2012 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize, judged by Gish Jen] (June 16, 2011)
• Fogel, Stanley ¿Que Coño Pasa? Snapshots of my Wonderful Cuban Life (May 18, 2011)
• Foley, Eric Look at the Camera, A Journey through Childhood’s Photographic Space (Oct 31, 2011)
• Frandina, Danielle What it’s like living here [San Francisco] (May 11, 2011)
• Frutkin, Mark From Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (Nov 18, 2011)

G

• Gataveckas, Noah Why do we burn books? or, The burning question of our movement (Nov 1, 2011), Professor O’Blivion Rides Again (Feb 28, 2012)
• Giovarelli, Renee What it’s like living here [Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan] (Dec 29, 2010)
• Glass, Jill The Use of Moralized Cityscape in Los Angeles Literature (Oct 6, 2010)
• Glover, Douglas Introduction to Acquainted with Absence (Mar 23, 2010), Rat Death & Dickens (Apr 30, 2010), On Victoria Redel’s Swoon (May12, 2010), On Love & Books (a diary entry) (June 26, 2010), Long Point, A Geography of the Soul (April 11, 2011)
• Glover, Jacob On Kierkegaard (Mar 20, 2010),  On Spinoza (Feb 24, 2010), On Montaigne (Feb 6, 2010)
• Glover, Jonah The Eunuch (Mar 11, 2010), Talking to a 17-Year-Old Girl, When you are a 16-Year-Old Boy (April 8, 2010)
• Green, Brad What it’s like living here [Denton, Texas] (Dec 1, 2010), Childhood (Feb 11, 2011)
• Gunn, Genni Tracks: An Italian Memoir (Mar 8, 2012)

H

• Hartshorn, Richard Wings Over Arda Film Diary (Sept 25 to Dec 1, 2010)
• Hemley, Robin The Columbus Syndrome Redux (Feb  15, 2012)
• Heer, Jeet Canadians in the Attic (on Hugh Kenner) (Sept 27, 2010)
• Heighton, Steven The Devil’s Dictionary for Writers (Nov 11, 2011)
• Helwig, Maggie Now the Green Blade Rises (Mar 19, 2011)
• Hiscock, Bruce An Awesome Proposal (April 30, 2012)
• Hodgins, Jack Faulkner Mississippi: April 1982 (April26, 2010), The Ice Man Experience: Sculpture & Words by Tyler & Jack Hodgins (April 23, 2o12)
• Hood, Andrew Writing Before God: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard (Oct 4, 2010)

J-K

• Jackson, Richard Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator (Mar 7, 2011)
• Johnson, Anna Maria & Steven David Johnson What it’s like living here [Cootes Store, Virginia] Feb 2, 2011, Riffing on Whirlpools (Feb 5, 2011), The Quirky Bird Art of Paula Swisher (Mar 2, 2011), James Agee’s Unconventional Use of Colons  (June 11, 2011)
• Karasick, Adeena The Un-creation of the Wor(l)d: Conceptual Poetry as Kabbalistic Trope (Feb 24, 2o12)
• Kaufman, Allison What it’s like living here (Connecticut) (Aug 12, 2011)
• Keane, Patrick J. Convergences: Memories Involving The Waste Land Manuscript (Feb 22, 2011), Rintrah (July 23, 2011), Eternal Recurrence: The Permanent Relevance of William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (Oct 14, 2011), Chiaroscuro: A Memoir (Feb 8, 2012)
• Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn My Owls (Aug 7, 2011)

L

• Lea, Sydney Weathers and Places (Mar 11, 2o11), Unskunked (Mar 13, 2012)
• Lefer, Diane What it’s like living here [Los Angeles] (May 7, 2011), Writing Instruction as a Social Practice: or What I Did (and Learned) in Barrancabermeja (July 6, 2011), Letter From Bolivia: Days and Nights in Cochabamba (March 19, 2012), Letter from Bolivia: Carnaval de Oruro (April 16, 2o12)
• Lerena, María Jesús Hernáez Narrative Genres and THE ADMINISTRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS: The Case of Daisy Goodwill’s Rebellion (June 26, 2011)
• Lupinetti, Mark Where Are Today’s Steinbecks? (May 17, 2011)

M

• Maillard, Keith from Fatherless (Mar 29, 2011), Kilroy, A Writer’s Childhood (May 13, 2011)
• Marchand, Philip Tainted Success and the Heroes of Martin Scorsese (Dec 31, 2011)
• Marden, Julie There’s a Theme for You (on thematic passage technique in Chekhov short stories) (April 10, 2010)
• Martin, Cynthia Newberry What it’s like living here [Columbus, Georgia] (Nov 7, 2010), Childhood (April 6, 2011)
• Martin, Rebecca Techniques of Emotional Representation and the Construct of the Self in Three Short Stories (Sept 20, 2010)
• Martin, Rick Childhood: Essay in Writing Myself (Oct 4, 2011)
• McCahill, Kate On White (May 4, 2010)
• Merrigan, Court What it’s like living here [Torrington, Wyoming] (Nov 13, 2o1o), Childhood (May 12, 2011)
• Merritt, Donigan What it like living here [Patagonia, Argentina] (Sept 7, 2010)
• Mullins, Gwen Plot Structure in Short Stories (Jan 12, 2011), What it’s like living here [Chattanooga] Jan  17, 2011)
• Mullins, Hilary Hear My Call (June 21, 2010), Hurricane Irene—What It Was Like, from Hilary Mullins in Bethel, Vermont (Oct 28, 2011)

O-Q

• Olding, Susan A Rake’s Progress (June 29, 2011)
• Oliveira, Robin The Book Tour Diary (May-August, 2010) What it’s like living here [Seattle] (Dec 16, 2010)
• Olsen, William On the Prayerful in Poetry (Nov 20, 2011)
• Proctor, John Burroughs & Son (May 24, 2010), What it’s like living here [New York] (Mar 4, 2011), The Immortality of the Crab (June 24, 2011), The Answer I Found in a Fortune Cookie: Toward a Digital Conception of Nonfiction (Nov 30, 2011)
• Quarmby, Lynne What it’s like living here [West Vancouver] (Jan 24, 2011), Stem Cells and the Fountain of Youth (April 12, 2011), Reasons to Rejoice in Green Algae (May 19, 2011), Chatting with ET: Dialogue between The Actual and The Possible (July 18, 2011), A Feeling for the Model Organism (Dec 5, 2011)

R

• Raffel, Dawn from The Secret Life of Objects (Dec 23, 2010), Essays from The Secret Life of Objects (April 23, 2012)
• Reuther, Kate What it’s like living here (a charticle) [New York] (Apr 2, 2011)
• Russell, Laura-Rose There’s a Reason They Call it Show AND Tell: How to Reveal Thoughts, Emotions, and Motivations Without Sentimentality (Oct 26, 2010)

S

• Saje, Natasha Dynamic Design: The Structure of Books of Poems (July 17, 2011)
• Saporito, Jean-Marie Letter from Taos: Too Horrible, Too Beautiful (Jan 18,2012), Letter from Taos: Cowgirls Ride the Trail of Truth (May 7, 2012)
• Sarkissian, Natalia What it’s like living here [Milan] (Oct 5, 2010), What it’s like living here [Milan] (Dec 3, 2010), Quality Time on the Bay of Silence, Sestri Levante (Jan 3, 2011), Missing my Dad (Jan 26, 2011), A Letter  from Italy (Feb 21, 2011), On the Hunt for Elusive Literary Game: the Premio Bagutta, Italy’s Oldest Literary Prize (March 31, 2011), Sabah Al Khair Habibti (April 28, 2011), Egypt After the Revolution, (May 2, 2011), My First Job (June 4, 2011), Egypt After the Revolution 2 (June 21, 2011), The Sky Is Red at Bordeaux (July 13, 2011), Tahrir Square, August 2011 (Aug 3, 2011), Siena’s Palio: A Medieval Horserace Turns Viral (Sept 6, 2011), Postcards from Italy: Lake Como(Sept 27,2011), The Feast of Sacrifice: Eid-al-Adha at Alexandria, Egypt (Nov 14, 2011), Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, and Old Cairo (Marach 16, 2012)
• Seltzer, Sarah What it’s like living here [New York] (Jan 27,2011)
• Shapiro, Shelagh What it’s like living here [Burlington, Vermont] (Oct 29, 2010)
• Shklovsky, Viktor From Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar by Viktor Shklovsky, Translated by Shushan Avagyan (July 8, 2011)
• Stagg, Erin What It’s Like Living Here [Dunedin, New Zealand] (Mar 6, 2012)
• Stansberry, Domenic Noir Manifesto (Jan 29, 2011)
• Stasiuk, Andrzej Rite of Spring from Dukla April 23, 2012)
• Stein, Mary Another Way to Fill an Empty Room: The Voice of Amy Hempel’s Aesthetic (Dec 8, 2010), Mucking Up the Landscape: Poetic Tendencies in Prose (Oct 5, 2011)
• Storring, Nathan The Struggle for the Centre: One City’s Adventure With Modernity (Nov 22, 2011)

U

• Ullman, Leslie A “Dark Star” Passes Through It (Sept 19, 2011)

V-W

• Vivian, Robert Thoughts on the Meditative Essay (Jan 16, 2012), The Essay As An Open Field (April 2, 2012)
• Volke, Liam What It’s Like Living Here (Victoria, British Columbia) (Jan 23, 2012)
• Von Rosk, Laura What it’s like living in Antarctica—from Laura Von Rosk at McMurdo Station (Nov 4, 2011), More Adventures at the Bottom of the World (Nov 16, 2011)
• Voorsanger, Wendy Exploration of the Poem Painting and More (Feb 10, 2011),  Searching for a Literary Burning Man (Sept 30, 2011)
• Westra, Adam A Critical Review of Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop (July 1, 2010), Westra, Adam & Haijo Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Menippean Satire (Feb 3, 2011)
• Westra, Haijo & Adam Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Menippean Satire (Feb 3, 2011)
• Whetter, Darryl ‘His Word against Mine’: Envy, Friendship and the Novel (Jan 30, 2011)
• Wilder, Cheryl What it’s like living here [Raleigh, North Carolina] (Feb 18, 2011)