Art's nonfiction has or will appear in Salon, Quillette, The Writer, The Good Men Project, and many others. Click the links below for examples of his work.
Reading Essay: Listening to Literature: What We Gain and Lose with Audiobooks
Writing Essay: Waiting for the Answer
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
Reading Essay: Listening to Literature: What We Gain and Lose with Audiobooks
Writing Essay: Waiting for the Answer
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