When thinking about the somebody ive met for The Empathy Essays,  I believe that Jamison has already covered most of that. She seems to be painfully honest with herself. Her insecurities are laid out for everyone to see, usually negatively.  … Continue reading →

Keeping in mind the Benson reading, with his emphasis on the essayist meaning to “interpret” a lived life, instead of recounting events simply as they happened. This is ever present in the section where she describes seeing a rather odd … Continue reading →

The writing styles used in Didion’s “On Keeping a Notebook” can be seen described in Klaus’s “Toward a Collective Poetics of the Essay”. Early on, Klaus describes the inevitability of comparing essays with other, “more conventional” works of rhetoric or scholastic. … Continue reading →