From John Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason. Yale University Press, 2001.

From Francis Flaherty’s Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing. HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.

From Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd. Random House, 2013.

From Bret Anthony Johnston’s “Don’t Write What You Know,” The Writer’s Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House, Tin House Books, 2009.

From Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd, Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction. Random House, 2013.

From “Ann Beattie on Craig Nova’s Another Drunk Gambler”. Object Lessons: The Paris Review presents The Art of the Short Story. 2012.

From Inferno: A Poet’s Novel by Eileen Myles.

From Stephen Dunn’s “The Poem, Its Buried Subject, and the Revisionist Reader: Behind ‘The Guardian Angel.’” Lit from Within: Contemporary Masters on the Art and Craft of Writing, 2011.

From Colm Tóibín’s Foreword to The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces, 2011.

From Aimee Bender’s “Character Motivation.” The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House, 2009.