Create a Byliner.com account. Find and follow at least three dissimilar writers and write a post explaining which three main writers you’re following and why. (None may be from the Pitt faculty.) Post by the start of class 11/9.
Malcom Gladwell: I don't think it's going too far to say that Gladwell made nonfiction trendy again. His works are exhaustingly well researched and I think brilliantly structured, the way he can weave disparate stories into a coherent narrative simultaneously instructive and enthrallingly entertaining.
Joan Didion: Didion is why I started writing nonfiction. I've read many of what are considered her classic essays from the 1960's but four decades later she's still writing- I'd like to be able to keep up with what she's publishing these days and Byliner presents an excellent way to do that by aggregating many of her works across the web.
David Sedaris: A longtime favorite. Hysterically funny yet frequently poignant memoirist. There are certainly lessons I hope to be able to learn from each of these writers but I've always been particularly inspired by Sedaris' handling of difficult and painful experiences, turning them into literary art free without inciting pity.
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