My pal Andrew Tibbetts, over at the CWC, is having a 'crisis of faith' about his fiction writing. His post is also a very good review of The Best American Essays 2007.
It's also sparking some discussion about non-fiction writing in general, with a mention of Ken McGoogan's recent Globe and Mail piece on the subject. Over at Canadian Magazines, D.B. Scott summarises the article (for those who missed it and don't want to pay to read it in its entirety), and Kerry Clare has a thing or two to say about it over at Pickle Me This.
Trying to weave in and out through fiction and non-fiction can be a bit of a challenge for writers, but I am surprised such hard lines have been drawn between the two.
McGoogan's argument for a third genre, as such, reminds me of Marge Piercy's 'third gender' suggestion in Women on the Edge of Time, and the controversy that incited.
I'm looking forward to reading more about this from writers of both genres.
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