Reality à la Mode: Why Do We Never Discuss Nonfiction Writing Styles?

While at a conference at Princeton a week or two ago (and yes, as you suspect, I am going to attempt to work in the word “Princeton” into pretty much everything I write, think, or say for the next two years or so, so gird thy loins) I was in conversation with author Marc Aronson when he brought up a rather interesting question. Why is it that when discussing Fiction, people fall over themselves to talk about different writing styles, and yet so little acknowledgement is given to authors of No...