The best of Essay Dailyeach a writer in conversation with and about an essay, whatever its variety, contemporary and classic. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- ANDER MONSON: Here's How You Use the Lion Mints: An...
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The best of Essay Dailyeach a writer in conversation with and about an essay, whatever its variety, contemporary and classic. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- ANDER MONSON: Here's How You Use the Lion Mints: An Introduction to How We Speak to One Another -- MARCIA ALDRICH: Invisible Engineering: The Fine Art of Revising "The Fine Art of Sighing" -- KRISTEN RADTKE on Chris Marker's Sans Soleil -- Majestic Ruins: ROBIN HEMLEY on the Work of James Agee -- V. V. GANESHANANTHAN on Essays, Assays, and Yiyun Li's "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life" -- ROBERT ATWAN: The Assault on Prose John Crowe Ransom, New Criticism, and the Status of the Essay -- MATT DUBE on Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu -- AISHA SABATINI SLOAN on Collage, Chris Kraus, and Misremembered Didion -- T CLUTCH FLEISCHMANN: Looking for Samuel Delany -- RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ: Observations about Writing Memoir in My Twenties, Thirties, and Forties -- KATHERINE E. STANDEFER on the Mysterious Leslie Ryan and the Structure of a Trauma Narrative -- JULIE LAUTERBACH-COLBY on Arianne Zwartjes's "This Suturing of Wounds or Words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated Screw" -- Living within the Ellipses: CÉSAR DÍAZ on Ilan Stavans's On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language -- EMILY DEPRANG on Joan Didion, on the Morning After My Twenties -- LUCAS MANN on Writing Young -- DANICA NOVGORODOFF on Losing Yourself -- KEN CHEN: Is the Essay at the End of Time? -- E-mail from BONNIE J. ROUGH -- PETER GRANDBOIS on the Essential Art of Failing -- ALBERT GOLDBARTH: Leaping -- ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING: Julian Barnes Brings Light to a ˜Thanatophobe's Conundrum -- STEVEN CHURCH on Tom Junod's "˜The Falling Man" -- BETHANY MAILE: We Sought but Couldn't Find: Coming Up Empty in David Shields's "Death Is the Mother of Beauty" -- Movie Quotes as Misery: DAVID LEGAULT on Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely.
The best of Essay Daily--each a writer in conversation with and about an essay, whatever its variety, contemporary and classic. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- ANDER MONSON: Here's How You Use the Lion Mints: An...
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The best of Essay Daily--each a writer in conversation with and about an essay, whatever its variety, contemporary and classic. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- ANDER MONSON: Here's How You Use the Lion Mints: An Introduction to How We Speak to One Another -- MARCIA ALDRICH: Invisible Engineering: The Fine Art of Revising "The Fine Art of Sighing" -- KRISTEN RADTKE on Chris Marker's Sans Soleil -- Majestic Ruins: ROBIN HEMLEY on the Work of James Agee -- V. V. GANESHANANTHAN on Essays, Assays, and Yiyun Li's "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life" -- ROBERT ATWAN: The Assault on Prose John Crowe Ransom, New Criticism, and the Status of the Essay -- MATT DUBE on Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu -- AISHA SABATINI SLOAN on Collage, Chris Kraus, and Misremembered Didion -- T CLUTCH FLEISCHMANN: Looking for Samuel Delany -- RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ: Observations about Writing Memoir in My Twenties, Thirties, and Forties -- KATHERINE E. STANDEFER on the Mysterious Leslie Ryan and the Structure of a Trauma Narrative -- JULIE LAUTERBACH-COLBY on Arianne Zwartjes's "This Suturing of Wounds or Words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated Screw" -- Living within the Ellipses: CÉSAR DÍAZ on Ilan Stavans's On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language -- EMILY DEPRANG on Joan Didion, on the Morning After My Twenties -- LUCAS MANN on Writing Young -- DANICA NOVGORODOFF on Losing Yourself -- KEN CHEN: Is the Essay at the End of Time? -- E-mail from BONNIE J. ROUGH -- PETER GRANDBOIS on the Essential Art of Failing -- ALBERT GOLDBARTH: Leaping -- ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING: Julian Barnes Brings Light to a ˜Thanatophobe's Conundrum -- STEVEN CHURCH on Tom Junod's "˜The Falling Man" -- BETHANY MAILE: We Sought but Couldn't Find: Coming Up Empty in David Shields's "Death Is the Mother of Beauty" -- Movie Quotes as Misery: DAVID LEGAULT on Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely.