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Patrik Svensson
Emerging Genre
by, Jill Swenson
June 8, 2021

There’s a new kind of first-person narrative nonfiction book growing in popularity, and it is moving away from traditional commercial memoir as “misery lit” following a single template of story structure, the hero’s journey. We’re into the twenty-twenties now, and I see a pattern emerging among these new kinds of nonfiction books: a distinctive narrator’s voice, expository information about a subject matter separate from the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Book of Eels, Eva Holland, Horse Crazy, Kate Lebo, Lilly Dancyger, Lulu Miller, Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction, Negative Space, Nerve, Patrik Svensson, Sarah Maslin Nir, The Book of Difficult Fruit, Why Fish Don't Exist
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