In search of short passages of especially strong or weak nonfiction prose! [more inside]
posted by cymru_j on Oct 17, 2009 - 8 answers

What are your favorite essays about traveling or living abroad? [more inside]
posted by AceRock on Jul 13, 2009 - 21 answers

Looking for older but well written essays that are available online at project gutenberg or other source. The style might be humorous or very serious. I am to some extent familiar with the shorter writings of J K Jerome and Bertrand Russel and looking for more in a similar vein. [more inside]
posted by ilike on Dec 21, 2008 - 14 answers

What are some of your absolute favourite online essays, articles and other pieces of non-fiction writing? [more inside]
posted by turgid dahlia on May 1, 2008 - 54 answers

How do I physically write faster? [more inside]
posted by ajp on Feb 18, 2008 - 21 answers

What readings would you recommend for a freshman composition class for Engineers? [more inside]
posted by washburn on Jan 6, 2007 - 13 answers

I'd like to recreate the thrill I used to get reading NON-fiction articles in the pre-Tina Brown "New Yorker" (yeah, I know she's no longer the editor, but I can still smell her when I get too close to a current issue), and I'm wondering if I can do it online by following a group of literate blogs (or other online resources?). [more inside]
posted by Evangeline on Oct 1, 2005 - 15 answers

Do we have any travel writers in the house? Is it really the life of glamour and ease that thetravelwriterslife.com claims?

Since I suspect it's not as easy as one might suppose after digesting that page, I have more questions: Can you tell me what it's like? How you got started? What kind of money you pull in? [more inside]
posted by Irontom on Jun 15, 2004 - 9 answers