Approach Quote by John D'Agata

“I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated.”

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Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

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Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You…

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I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.

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As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I…

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I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as…

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You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

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Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while…

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I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the…

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A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

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You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither…

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Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.

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“Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental — less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest that has…

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