Nonfiction | KS Culbreth

All essays written about our times cannot avoid running the risk of offending someone, somewhere, because we are all living our way through these same times together and living through these shared times with individual perspectives and objectives.

It is not my intent to write and post articles written from a particular political or partisan viewpoint. When people try to engage me in a political discussion, my typical reply is:

Discussing politics is one of the surest ways of making false friends and unnecessary enemies.

If what I write and post here offends any, it ought not. I typically follow the rules of rhetoric laid down by Aristotle in his great dicta On Rhetoric and Poetics in that I try to elevate my personal experiences and viewpoints to universal topics and a critique that can be appreciated by all.

Literary Criticism

From the Universal to the Particular
The Dead Poets (on Theme and Form)
Literary Knowledge
The Forgotten
The Humble Art of the Memoir
The Enlightened A-ha!
What is Literary Fiction?
Vanity Press (on Writers, Agents, Publishers)
Tourists and Travelers

Articles and Essays

The Turning Leaf
On Simple Plans
The Starving Horse (A Parable)