Art's nonfiction has or will appear in Salon, BULL, The Rumpus, The Writer, The Good Men Project, PANK, Necessary Fiction, English Kills Review, The Weeklings, Word Riot, HTMLGIANT, Pear Noir!, BLEED, and The Nervous Breakdown. Click the links below for examples of his work.
Writing Essay: Waiting for the Answer
Personal Essay: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young R.E.M. Fan
Personal Essay: The Bastard Who Last Cut My Hair
Review/Essay: The Pot Calling the Kettle Narcissistic: The Lives and Works of John Updike and David Foster Wallace
Publishing Essay: David, Goliath, and Me
Music Essay: Do You Have a Vacancy? Morrissey and Getting What One Wants
Writing Essay: Writing in Plain Sight
Writing Essay: This Ain't Paradiddles
Writing Essay: The Most Important Writing Advice I Know
Publishing Essay: Sure, She's Inflatable, but Look at Those Eyes
Publishing Essay: Doesn't Rock, Isn't Novel
Rock Novel Manifesto: Goodbye, Cleveland!
Publishing Essay: The Slow Book Movement
Publishing Essay: Changing Hands
Writing Essay: Five Seasons Center
Review/Essay: Isn't It Narcissistic? A Review of James Masterson's The Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders
Music Essay: Why You Actually Love Hootie and the Blowfish, Alanis Morissette, Bush and the Dave Matthews Band
Essay: Litertainment
Essay: The Box it Came In
Personal Essay: Person and Persona
Review/Essay: All Novelists Should Read Robert McKee
Music Essay: Three Songs that Kill Their Own Good Vibe
Review/Essay: David Foster Wallace was Wrong: Why John Updike Mattered and Always Will
Personal Essay: No Refreshments will be Served
Publishing Essay: Amazon is the Devil, and Other Reasons to Love Them
Writing Essay: From Real Life to the Page: What the Shift from Realistic Novels to Memoir says about Literary Culture and Us
Personal Essay: The Year I Lost Math
Writing Essay: Creating Sympathetic Characters: The U Method
Writing Essay : This is (not) my Beautiful Life: A Novelist Ponders the Memoir Form
Writing Essay : Demystifying Metaphor: One Writer's Journey to Livelier Figurative Language
Self-Publishing Article : Doing it Yourself: Five tips to Separate your Print-on-Demand Project from the Pack
Art's Complete The Nervous Breakdown Archive
Writing Essay: Waiting for the Answer
Personal Essay: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young R.E.M. Fan
Personal Essay: The Bastard Who Last Cut My Hair
Review/Essay: The Pot Calling the Kettle Narcissistic: The Lives and Works of John Updike and David Foster Wallace
Publishing Essay: David, Goliath, and Me
Music Essay: Do You Have a Vacancy? Morrissey and Getting What One Wants
Writing Essay: Writing in Plain Sight
Writing Essay: This Ain't Paradiddles
Writing Essay: The Most Important Writing Advice I Know
Publishing Essay: Sure, She's Inflatable, but Look at Those Eyes
Publishing Essay: Doesn't Rock, Isn't Novel
Rock Novel Manifesto: Goodbye, Cleveland!
Publishing Essay: The Slow Book Movement
Publishing Essay: Changing Hands
Writing Essay: Five Seasons Center
Review/Essay: Isn't It Narcissistic? A Review of James Masterson's The Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders
Music Essay: Why You Actually Love Hootie and the Blowfish, Alanis Morissette, Bush and the Dave Matthews Band
Essay: Litertainment
Essay: The Box it Came In
Personal Essay: Person and Persona
Review/Essay: All Novelists Should Read Robert McKee
Music Essay: Three Songs that Kill Their Own Good Vibe
Review/Essay: David Foster Wallace was Wrong: Why John Updike Mattered and Always Will
Personal Essay: No Refreshments will be Served
Publishing Essay: Amazon is the Devil, and Other Reasons to Love Them
Writing Essay: From Real Life to the Page: What the Shift from Realistic Novels to Memoir says about Literary Culture and Us
Personal Essay: The Year I Lost Math
Writing Essay: Creating Sympathetic Characters: The U Method
Writing Essay : This is (not) my Beautiful Life: A Novelist Ponders the Memoir Form
Writing Essay : Demystifying Metaphor: One Writer's Journey to Livelier Figurative Language
Self-Publishing Article : Doing it Yourself: Five tips to Separate your Print-on-Demand Project from the Pack
Art's Complete The Nervous Breakdown Archive