Vulnerable Comfort and Wedding Rings
Penny Lane admits in her interview with The Atlantic that she had her own fear of being too personal. It…
Continue readingThe Voices of the Living Dead
Lia Purpura’s “Autopsy Report” paints a vivid picture of the dead. The opening of the bodies presented familiarity comparable to…
Continue readingThe Flicker of Many Chicks
The intimacy of the essay continues with the video essay. As Freeman states in “On the Form of the Video…
Continue readingIn Search of…What’s Easy on the Ears
I didn’t think Antin’s essay on selecting a new mattress would be a shared experience for me. I wasn’t selecting…
Continue readingThe Whispers and Screams of Words
Voice. Its dwells quietly in us and plays joyfully from our lips. Voice’s significance is echoed in Porter’s “Essay on the…
Continue readingThe Primary Symptoms of the Essayist
Just when you’ve thought you’ve read all there is to read about an essayist writing an essay on an essayist’s…
Continue readingLanguage’s Eclipse and Resurgance
The dynamic role of the essayist is explored in A.C. Benson’s “Art of the Essayist.” Benson addresses the essayist as…
Continue readingThe Essayist’s Notebook
Joan Didion justifies her call to write in “On Keeping a Notebook.” As she tangles with the idea of words and…
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