John D’Agata, faculty member of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing, and Wag's Review nonfiction editor Sandra Allen spoke on a café patio in downtown Iowa City, IA. D'Agata is the author of a trilogy of anthologies which trace the history of contemporary essaying: The Next American Essay, The Lost Origins of the Essay, and a forthcoming third. Once called “one of the most significant US writers” by the late David Foster Wallace, D’Agata continues to hash out a place for the kind of writing Wallace did. His second creative work, About A Mountain, is to be released in February.