nonfiction writing

“Please Keep Caring.” What John McPhee Taught Generations of Writers and Journalists

Peter Hessler on a Beloved Mentor and Tireless Proponent of Creative Nonfiction

 
By Peter Hessler  May 19, 2025
Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir

By Bridgett M. Davis  April 7, 2025
Imagination

Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

By Lynn Steger Strong  April 7, 2025
craft advice

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

By Vanda Krefft  March 10, 2025
The Craft of Writing

Jonathan Tarleton on the Limits of Research—and Making Peace with What You Don’t Know

By Jonathan Tarleton  March 7, 2025
Writers in Conversation

Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

By Sarah Viren  February 7, 2025
Storytelling

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

By Jay Nicorvo  January 27, 2025
craft advice

Inspiration in the Cards: How Tarot Can Help Us Narrativize Our Lives

By Chelsey Pippin Mizzi  October 4, 2024
The Writing Life

I’ve Finished My Manuscript, Now What? On Dealing With Post-Book Blues

By Lance Richardson  September 23, 2024
craft advice

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

By Alizah Holstein  June 25, 2024
Writers in Conversation

Elisa Gabbert on the Philosophy and Process Behind the Poem and the Essay

By Sarah Viren  June 12, 2024
Comedians

Looking For Elaine May: On Tracking Down an Elusive Comedy Legend

By Carrie Courogen  June 10, 2024
The Writing Life

How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

By Steve Almond  April 15, 2024
True Crime

Real People, Real Pain: On the Ethics of Telling True Stories of Trauma

By Philip Eil  April 10, 2024
War

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

By Aminatta Forna  January 29, 2024
Creative Nonfiction

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

By Lee Gutkind  January 23, 2024
Feminism

Vigilantes and Vengeance: On the Women Who Fight Back

By Elizabeth Flock  January 9, 2024
Fiction vs. Nonfiction

The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

By Maura Lammers  December 13, 2023
Lyric Essays

Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

By Hugh Ryan  September 6, 2023
Food Memoirs

The Memoir That Found Me: Michaele Weissman on Food, Marriage, and Identity

By Michaele Weissman  August 16, 2023
Writing Process

William Dameron On the Tricky Art of Turning Truth Into Fiction

By William Dameron  August 7, 2023
Documentaries

How Nonfiction Writing and Documentary Filmmaking Curate the Truth

By Chachi D. Hauser  July 7, 2023
Essays

It’s Not Personal: Sarah Viren on Essayistic Visions of the Self

By Sarah Viren  June 13, 2023
Criticism

How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other

By Jane Smiley  June 6, 2023
Recipes

Kate Lebo on Making and Remaking Recipes On and Off the Page

By Kate Lebo  May 24, 2023
Writers in Conversation

“Outside the Coordinates.” On Crafting Nonfiction That Takes Risks

By Laura Tillman  May 24, 2023
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