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No Fightpicking. Just a Question.

Earlier this month Dinty W. Moore, editor of the micro-essay blog Brevity and all-around nonfiction guy published in the Mississippi Review a piece entitled “Self-Critique”, which he believes to be the shortest essay ever. Here it is:
I have a tendency towards glibness.
Now: I’m not trying to pick a fight with Dinty Moore here. I was [...]

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Elements of Personal Confrontation: Excerpts from Hayes B. Jacobs’ “A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Nonfiction”

Recently my friend Daynah g-chatted me with the news that a small used bookstore in her Seattle suburb carried in their one-dollar bin a hardcover copy of A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Nonfiction, Hayes B. Jacobs‘ 1967 how-to that aims to teach people how to write “non-fiction that is readable, that informs, persuades, [...]

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