Writing that argues, explains, or records. Authors on structuring a nonfiction book and finding the spine that holds it together.
Fiction WritingSeptember 11, 2026
Every documentary reviewed on this site, ranked by the rating its review carries. Natural history, true crime, sport, surveillance, and the two films that got convictions overturned and a genocide described on camera.
Business BooksSeptember 2, 2026
Nobody warned me that becoming a manager would feel like being handed the keys to a spaceship and told to fly it while already in orbit. I first became one in 1981.
Critical ThinkingAugust 28, 2026
It began around 2000 as a couple dozen HTML pages and grew across 25 years into a book. Here is the story behind my moral critique of the digital age.
Critical ThinkingAugust 26, 2026
An episode of Ancient Aliens started it. Here is the story behind my unsparing field guide to conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and the machinery that sells them.
NonfictionAugust 6, 2026
Mojo Books and Records near USF is Tampa's largest used and new book and record store, about forty-five hundred square feet, running since 2007. Books, vinyl, an artisan coffee bar, and a buying counter open noon to six every day…
Book WritingJuly 29, 2026
People assume the range is a problem. What transfers between a security book and a memoir is almost everything that matters.
LibrariesJuly 29, 2026
Seminole Community Library opens at eight in the morning four days a week and is open Sundays, which almost nothing else in the county manages. Two floors shared with the college, a quiet upper level, free first-come study rooms, and…
BookstoresJuly 22, 2026
Back in the Day Books splits its stock between new bestsellers and rare, collectible, and out of print material kept behind glass. The owner is a Clearwater native and former lawyer who ran the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association for two…
AI WritingJuly 10, 2026
A how-to book succeeds or fails on one thing: does the reader achieve the result. That means writing from the reader's side, not the expert's.
AIJune 29, 2026
Ask for a moving passage and you get the vocabulary of moving passages. Everything is named and nothing is at risk.
GhostwritingJune 18, 2026
Ghostwriting a self-help book means turning a person's hard-won wisdom into a system a reader can truly use, in a voice readers trust.
Book WritingJune 14, 2026
National Nonfiction Day is the first Thursday in November. Why nonfiction matters, what makes it good, and why the best reason to write it is not sales.
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