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Dana Diehl Talks About TV Girls and What She Loves in Reality TV

by Courtney Brooks Author Dana Diehl has a complicated obsession with reality TV shows, particularly those…
Decolonizing Nonfiction: What it Means to Write in an ‘American Invention’

NonfictionNOW featured a slew of diverse writers and panels this year. During the panel “Decolonizing Nonfiction,”…
NFN2018: “Sub/urban Environmental Writing”

Sub/urban environmental writing is not simply blurry-eyed nostalgia for a greener past, spewing anger for a…
The Hermit Crab Essay: Brenda Miller Unshells her Own

A hermit crab essay is one that imitates a non-literary text—recipe, obituary, rejection letter—using the found…
A Clogged Drain, Box of Rocks, a Fish’s Heart: How Writers Structure their Collections

In a conference for writers, metaphors will rule. Do text and textiles share more than just…
Writing the Diné Presence into Existence: An Interview with Laura Tohe

Laura Tohe is a distinguished poet, author, and editor from the Diné community whose creative work…
More than a Vulture: Talking Love and Loss and Sin and Forgiveness with Jesse Sensibar

by Margarita Cruz He is a former tow truck driver, former drug dealer, former tattoo shop…
Science Confirms: The Aesthetic Sublime is Pretty Right On

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” (1818) is one of the most famous…
So I Scream: An Interview with poet Katie Quinnelly

Katie Quinnelly is a poet from West Virginia, where she is also a climbing instructor. Her…
Greyhound by James Croal Jackson

Greyhound is what we call grapefruit juice club soda and vodka. Also the name of a…