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Literary — or alternatively: creative; narrative — nonfiction is more or less what it says on the tin. That is, a self-excavatory, narrativized nonfiction practice enriched by reportage and scaffolded by the trappings of literary fiction (in terms of plot, pace, structure, imagery, tone, and style), emanating from a developed, palpable "I."

The grain of a ubiquitous, felt human subjectivity does more to distinguish literary nonfiction than a penchant for unconventional modes of storytelling and (long and hotly contested) separation of "fact" and "truth" (the latter being more expansive...

My hope was simple, curating “Writing the Body”: to hold up exceptional writing that interrogates — empirically, literarily, lyrically — the fundamentally simple experience of living in a human body, especially as that body intersects with (chronic) illness; race, gender, and queerness; disability; the American “Medical-Industrial Complex”; environmental destruction; and design and the built environment...