I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight..

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics..

The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel..

Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happ….

Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican ….

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction….

If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least i….