Category: Non Fiction Books
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Reviewed by Ben Winderman Terrence P. Dwyer’s The Badge Between Us: Responsibility, Marriage, and Household (Bloomsbury Educational; Feb. 2026) courageously confronts institutional issues embedded within the tradition/profession of policing. Dwyer, retired from the New York State Police after a 22-year profession experiences upon “the job’s” inherent hypocrisies, its underworld actors, its dysfunctional paperwork, and the…
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AI instruments are evolving quicker than you possibly can say “Synthetic Intelligence,” and these instruments supply large benefits for nonfiction authors. We are able to use them for all kinds of duties, together with: Brainstorming – Titles, outlines, and content material concepts. Social media content material – Draft and schedule posts, develop concepts, and ship…
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By Etya Vaserman Krichmar I realized English the way in which a toddler learns to stroll, by repeatedly falling in public. It was not as a result of I used to be careless, however as a result of the bottom stored shifting beneath me. In Russian, the language I grew up with, there are not…
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Reviewed by Brian Lee Knopp In 2016, writers Ander Monson and Megan Campbell created a music-themed match during which sixty-four songs and their corresponding essays have been pitted towards one another in successive brackets till there was a single winner. They began with March Unhappiness (Unhappy 90s Indie Songs), producing the essays themselves at first,…
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We’re thrilled to announce a brand new membership profit starting in June 2026. Nonfiction Style Teams are hosted with Zoom breakout rooms, permitting authors to collect for collaboration, connection, assist, and brainstorming. How Nonfiction Style Teams Work Step 1: Members of the Nonfiction Authors Affiliation can attend this month-to-month Zoom occasion and decide to look…
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By Allison Okay Williams As an editor, I see a number of explaining. The household historical past the reader “has to know to know the story.” The reflection from the narrator mid-scene, clarifying how they felt within the second. Too typically, we fear we’re not adequate to get our level throughout in fewer phrases. That…
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Interviewed by Rae Pagliarulo When Brenda Miller’s newest guide, Love You, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner Home Books; April 2026) was launched, I instantly knew that I needed to cowl it for Hippocampus Journal. What I didn’t know was that I’d get a lot greater than an ARC of the guide — Brenda…
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Our 16th annual Nonfiction Writers Convention was an enormous hit! The audio system really over-delivered this 12 months, packing the classes with academic worth. Together with attendees, I took notes, capturing my favourite nuggets of knowledge. I’ve rounded them up for you right here. Mike Michalowicz was our opening speaker this 12 months and shared…
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Brevity 82: Vivid, Modern, and Temporary Might 13, 2026 § Brevity journal has launched its 82nd situation of vivid, modern flash nonfiction, that includes transient prose exploring diehard fandom, self-discovery, rising tides, and shock encounters, essays that linger on the margins of poetry and prose, of realizing and the unknown, of right here and never.…
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Reviewed by Nan J. Bauer The maths is primary: Meals is life. Withholding it’s energy. It’s an equation we see each day to horrible impact within the present Palestinian and Sudanese genocides; what bombs and bullets don’t kill, hunger finishes, much less effectively and with higher cruelty. We don’t must look onerous to search out…