A pair of essays for you today:

» Where Are the Queens of Nonfiction?
“Ira Glass, host of the radio and television program This American Life, claims that nonfiction is the most important and impressive art form of our day” — but why was it necessary, Anne Trubek wonders, to title his anthology The New Kings of Nonfiction.

» A Shed of One’s Own
Having built a writing hut with his own two hands, Chris Routledge ruminates on the spaces famous writers have carved out for their work.