In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.