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Friday Five: Hippocampus Magazine editor Donna Talarico on creative nonfiction

‘Like fiction, good memoir can also allow people to get lost in another world.’

Portrait photograph of Donna Talarico, founder, publisher and managing editor of Hippocampus Magazine — Donna Talarico, Hippocampus Magazine founder, publisher and managing editor

The literary genre known as creative nonfiction (CNF) has grown in popularity in recent years, and one brilliant and consistent source of great CNF is Hippocampus Magazine. The online literary magazine has been going strong since its debut in 2010.

In today’s Friday Five, Donna Talarico, the magazine’s founder, publisher and managing editor, provides her insights on CNF and the magazine she founded.

Denis Johnson’s trove of quotes for writers

69 pages of ideas, observations, advice, and encouragement

In addition to being a masterful writer of short stories and novels, Denis Johnson was a collector of quotes from other writers, musicians, and artists. Thanks to Twitter/X and writer Karan Mahajan (@kmahan), I recently discovered, via a three-year-old tweet, a 69-page compilation of these quotes.