When I think of useful literary devices, Pat Nixon is not the first thing that comes to mind. To be honest, I don’t have one single thing that comes to mind when […]
Review: Ann Beattie's Mrs. Nixon
Reading John McPhee
#20: selections from The John McPhee Reader (1976) and The Second John McPhee Reader (1996) by John McPhee No one seems to know when “creative nonfiction” emerged as a genre, but John […]
Edward Abbey's uncompromising voice in the desert
#7: Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (1968) Once more, I feel late to the party. I had no idea who Edward Abbey was, yet nearly every nonfiction writer I’ve read so far […]
