Proxies

<h4>Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently Aftermath, as well as an autobiography, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress. He teaches at Willamette University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.</h4>

Scott Nadelson

Radical Humility

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Get It While You Can

Exquisite Failure

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood

City, Memory, and Dream: On Roger Rosenblatt’s "The Boy Detective"

Dinah Lenney&nbsp;is&nbsp;the author of&nbsp;The Object Parade&nbsp;(2014) and&nbsp;Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir&nbsp;(2007), and co-editor of Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction&nbsp;(co-editor, 2015). She serves as core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and as an editor-at-large for&nbsp;LARB.&nbsp;Her latest book is&nbsp;Coffee (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Dinah Lenney

<h4>Judith Kitchen is the author of four books of essays (most recently The Circus Train), a novel, and a book of criticism. She has edited three volumes of short nonfiction and served for over twenty years as reviewer of poetry for The Georgia Review.</h4>

Judith Kitchen

Sven Birkerts co-edits the journal AGNI at Boston University and directs the Bennington Writing Seminars. His most recent book is Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age&nbsp;(Graywolf).

Sven Birkerts

<h4>David Biespiel’s ninth book, A Long High Whistle, received the Frances Fuller Victor Award. Recent books include Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women. He’s a contributor to The Rumpus, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Partisan, New Republic, Politico, The New York Times, and Slate.</h4>

David Biespiel

Why Genre Matters

Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently Aftermath, as well as an autobiography, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress. He teaches at Willamette University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.