Creative Writing in the Age of Trump

Creative Writing in the Age of Trump

It is hardly a new thought to observe that writing is a lonely affair, a conversation with oneself played out on the keyboard in the hope that others will eventually listen in. There are, however, different kinds of loneliness. Writing journalism, as I have extensively done—be it in the form of interviews, reviews, or reportage—is more in the way of writing to order, and, as such, requires less of the suspension of disbelief that writing fiction…