Inside Reader
Martha NicholsA deep dive into books, media, and writing — and the impact of AI — by the author of FIRST-PERSON JOURNALISM
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What Is Memoir For?
“Dusk at 70 mph” © Ron Wurtz; used with permission
In the late 1990s, my husband and I drove cross-country from the Bay Area back to the Boston, after a six-month sabbatical.
I don’t remember every bit of the drive home across the northe...
Every Time I Read About Sam Altman, I Get More Worried
Image generated with ChatGPT using this prompt from me: “Create an image of Sam Altman taking over the world”; the image (and digital video) that opens the New Yorker article was also “generated using A.I.”
In this spring of 2026, I bet yo...
My Love Letter to Subjectivity
“Envelope of Flowers”; photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash
On a recent morning, after taking a short walk beside an icy pond, I wrote a letter to myself. I set a timer for 15 minutes, and wrote fast, just to get the words down, to shake...
Wuthering Heights 2026: Why the Violence Feels So Familiar
“Storm Top” (New Zealand 2017) © Sanford Rose
The first time I read Wuthering Heights, I was thirteen or fourteen. I recall stretching out on the red-and-green striped Indian bedspread in my room of our California tract house. It was the e...
Light in the Darkness
“Sundog, Ghost Ranch, 2018” © Ron Wurtz
This past Saturday morning, I saw a sundog through my bedroom window. The sun was still low and beyond the frame, the clouds rippled, but there it glowed through a scrim of leafless trees: a vertical...
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As co-founder and publisher of TALKING WRITING, I'm committed to personal storytelling and diverse voices — and my textbook, FIRST-PERSON JOURNALISM (Routledge, 2022), lays out the value of accuracy and honesty in personal nonfiction.
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