Between the Lines

This issue features essays that, among other things, take us between the lines—writers writing about writing—in a variety of creative and informative contexts. Novelist Bret Lott speaks out "Against Technique," while Canadian journalist David Hayes analyzes the "inner monologue" ("Penetrating Thoughts"), an often-debated creative nonfiction technique and tool. The Hayes essay, along with Michael Rosenwald's report of his recent encounter with Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer John McPhee ("Travels with John McPhee"), are located in the back of the issue in a section of the same name, "Between the Lines."