Posts tagged "Lee Martin"

Beyond “Craft for Craft’s Sake”: Nonfiction and Social Justice

Authors’ Note: We completed this essay in the early days of November 2016. At the time, we felt like our manifesto—our call for an urgent craft infused with social justice—was an outlier, a push from the margins of nonfiction discourse. We thought it was possible that the audience of Brevity could be resistant to, or...

Ignorance, Lies, Imagination and Subversion in the Writing of Memoir and the Personal Essay

I’ve long believed that much of the power of memoir and the personal essay comes from the fact that the writer allows the reader to stand alongside him or her, participating in events that have already happened and sharing space with the author’s sensibility. To make that possible, I tell my students, it can be...