A Literacy Narrative
Entropy Magazine, May 2020
There’s no such thing as nonfiction. This might seem like the title of yet another essay on the merits of essayistic writing as its own genre and not just a negation of another. Dinty W. Moore has explained how essayists have responded to their genre’s moniker. His bottom line is, understandably, realpolitikisch: we’re stuck with the term. But I’d like to take another tack. . .
