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Requiem for a Kool-Aid Wino: Why is Richard Brautigan, the Original George Saunders, Still Ignored?

by Mark Alvarez My old San Francisco neighborhood has two hearts: Portsmouth Square and Washington Square.…
Dear Anger, What is Next? by Mekenzie Dyer

Dear Anger, I have been staring for months at the blank word documentthat should be my…
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…