Items tagged with essays.

Obama's "Bitter" and the Creative Nonfiction Writer: Postcard From the Campaign Trail

by Kelly Nuxoll

Postcard

The origin and form of Mayhill Fowler’s Huffington Post report on Barack Obama's use of the word "bitter" suggest her work is neither blogging nor journalism, but creative nonfiction. That its effect was out of proportion with its intention begs the question: What can the creative nonfiction writer expect in the Information Age?

In Search of David Foster Wallace

by Joe Woodward

Feature

January/February 2006

Whether it’s a thousand-page novel, a single-paragraph story, or a footnoted essay, the elusive author always offers a complicated—and sometimes maddening—reading experience. But is there more to David Foster Wallace than words on a page?

An Interview With Fiction Writer Jonathan Franzen

by Kevin Canfield

Direct Quote

Less than a year after his third novel, The Corrections, was awarded the National Book Award for fiction, Jonathan Franzen is back with a new collection of nonfiction.

On Essays: Literature’s Most Misunderstood Form

by Michael Depp

The Literary Life

July/August 2002

This is not an essay. Though maybe, in a way, it is. Because it's a strange thing about essays—even talking about them, trying to get at what they are, it's hard not to cleave to the spirit of the essay, that inconclusive, most outwardly formless of forms, which spills and seeps into so many other kinds of writing-memoir, feature, commentary, review—and punctuates every assertion with a qualification, a measure of doubt, an alternate possibility.