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When story is not the main concern, what keeps us reading? How can voice, structure, or research provide a pressurizing frame\u2014and a pleasing shape\u2014for nonfiction material? We will explore these questions through readings that rely on elements other than narrative for forward momentum, in the tradition of the idea-driven essay. In the course of our discussion, we\u2019ll look at a few quick examples from writers who have published nonfiction that depends on something other than narrative and unpack some of their \u201calternative\u201d strategies of making.