How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between

Foster insists that “structure matters.” How does his emphasis on organization and form challenge the assumption that nonfiction writing is purely about content? In what ways does structure shape the truth that a text can tell?

Throughout How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor, Foster blurs the line between instruction and performance. How does his own writing style (humorous, rhetorical, self-referential) embody the persuasive strategies that he teaches readers to identify? Include textual evidence.

In exploring the “golden age” of nonfiction amid a culture of misinformation, Foster presents a paradox. How does this tension between abundance and distrust reflect broader cultural anxieties about authority and truth in the digital age?