Happy Wednesday, everybody! Today we're excited to celebrate the Top 10 most-visited, most-popular articles and pedagogy we've published since we began in 2014. Watch this space! #amwriting #amreading #amteaching #nonfiction #pedagogy

Coming in at #10, Joanna Eleftheriou's "Is Genre Ever New?
Theorizing the Lyric Essay in its Historical Context" (Assay 4.1)! Essential reading for anyone working in lyric essays--don't miss it! @JOANNAessayist #lyricessay #nonfiction #nonfictiontheory

https://www.assayjournal.com/joanna-eleftheriou-is-genre-ever-new-theorizing-the-lyric-essay-in-its-historical-context.html

#9 on our countdown of Top 10 Most Popular, Jennifer Case's wonderful "Place Studies: Theory and Practice in Environmental Nonfiction" (Assay 4.1). Check it out & see why it's in the top 10!

#environmentalstudies #ecocriticism #placestudies #nonfiction

https://www.assayjournal.com/jennifer-case-place-studies-theory-and-practice-in-environmental-nonfiction.html

#8 on our Top Ten is Stacy Murison's delightful "​David Foster Wallace’s “Ticket to the Fair” (Assay 4.2). If you're looking for a great example of creative analysis and narrative scholarship, you'll want to look at this. @caseystay #davidfosterwallace

https://www.assayjournal.com/stacy-murison-david-foster-wallaces-ticket-to-the-fair.html

As we're counting down, we want to give a shout out to the excellent resources on our blog, which includes panel reports from AWP and NonfictioNow--wonderful and relevant work! https://assayjournal.wordpress.com/category/conference-reports/

#7 on our Top Ten is Andy Harper's "The Joke's On Me: The Role of Self-Deprecating Humor in Personal Narrative" (Assay 1.1) from the very first issue that Assay ever published! @spotsonmyapples #humor #nonfiction #craft #technique

https://www.assayjournal.com/andy-harper-the-jokes-on-me-the-role-of-self-deprecating-humor-in-personal-narrative-11.html

Are you ready for this? #6 is one of @karenbabine's favorites--Marya Hornbacher's "​"The World is Not Vague": Nonfiction and the Urgency of Fact" (Assay 5.1). Absolutely essential reading for beginning nonfictionists. @MaryaHornbacher #amreading

https://www.assayjournal.com/marya-hornbacher-the-world-is-not-vague-nonfiction-and-the-urgency-of-fact-51.html

#5 on our Top Ten most popular of all time is Steven Harvey and Ana Maria Spagna's "The Essay in Parts" (Assay 2.1), another wonderful introductions to the genre, perfect for assigning to students! @amspagna @THEsharvey #nonfiction #craft

https://www.assayjournal.com/steven-harvey--ana-maria-spagna-the-essay-in-parts65279-21.html

It's the Fab Four! #4 in our Top Ten is Emily W. Blacker's "​Ending the Endless: The Art of Ending Personal Essays"--one of the great deep craft essays that's out there. Don't miss it! #craft #endings

https://www.assayjournal.com/emily-w-blacker-ending-the-endless-the-art-of-ending-personal-essays-51.html

The bronze medal (#3 on our Top Ten) goes to Kelly Harwood's "Then and Now: A Study of Time Control in Scott Russell Sanders' "Under the Influence" (Assay 1.2), one of our favorite craft studies of an author. Psst, we'd like to see more of this work!

https://www.assayjournal.com/kelly-harwood-then-and-now-a-study-of-time-control-in-8203scott-russell-sanders-under-the-influence-12.html