Poets & Writers

2 min. di lettura

Too Much and Not the Mood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April), a collection of personal and critical essays that explore art, literature, identity, and solitude, whose prose favors lyrical meandering over traditional narrative. Editors: Emily Bell and

Poets & Writers

2 min. di lettura

The Book of Resting Places: A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead (Counterpoint, November), a collection of essays through which the author investigates cultural and historical burial places and rituals of mourning after the death of his father

The Millions

7 min. di lettura

Essays are more important than ever! I mean writing that slows down, deliberates, ruminates, and examines its own beliefs even as it states them. The post What Is the Value of Being Haunted? The Millions Interviews Randon Billings Noble appeared firs

The Millions

4 min. di lettura

The classic comp exercise is often thought of as facile—the opposite of mature, fully realized work. That's exactly why Rion Amilcar Scott took it on. The post How to Write the Perfect Five-Paragraph Essay appeared first on The Millions.

Poets & Writers

8 min. di lettura

HEATHER LANIER is the author of the nonfiction book Teaching in the Terrordome as well as two poetry chapbooks. Her essays have appeared in Salon, the Sun, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and elsewhere, and her TED talk on the incomplete stories we tell ourse

Poets & Writers

3 min. di lettura

“I’m interested in essays because the definition of them seems to be changing all the time,” says Chelsea Hodson, whose debut essay collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, comes out this month from Henry Holt. Hodson’s own essays, which tend toward the

Creative Nonfiction

3 min. di lettura

ORIGINALLY, we were planning to devote this issue—which was scheduled for last summer—to the theme of “power.” And as you’ll see, each essay we’ve collected here engages that theme in one way or another. But as this very long, very eventful year wore

Poets & Writers

3 min. di lettura

In her debut essay collection, Homing Instincts, Dionisia Morales takes on ideas of place and home. Framed by the day-to-day of Morales’s life—rock climbing, travel, pregnancy, moving from New York City to Oregon—the essays weave together research an

The Christian Science Monitor

3 min. di lettura

It is Epstein’s gift to be able to take a reader by the sleeve and gently tug him into a topic he had no idea he’d be interested in.

Screen Education

12 min. di lettura

In this era of constant, relentless testing and assessment of students, it seems as if there is less free space in the classroom for curiosity and discovery. Attainment standards and benchmarking constantly shape the terrain we work within, while the

Guernica Magazine

10 min. di lettura

Michele Filgate, Nayomi Munaweera, and Sari Botton on a new anthology, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About. The post Plumbing the Silences Between Mothers and Children appeared first on Guernica.

The Atlantic

15 min. di lettura

A new history of the essay gets the genre all wrong, and in the process endorses a misleading idea of knowledge.

NPR

3 min. di lettura

In the new collection, Ann Patchett tells of her resemblance to her mother, Lizzie Skurnick and Mat Bergman offer thoughts on mothers with dementia, and John Freeman contemplates his father's legacy.

Journal of Alta California

4 min. di lettura

The essay is experiencing a renaissance. At the same time, there’s quite a lot of confusion about what an essay is and what it does. Often, when people talk about “an essay,” it’s actually an op-ed or some opinion-driven riff that employs the first p

The Writer

1 min. di lettura

1 Timeliness. Why does this essay need to be told right now? What does it add to the current conversation? Include all this in your query letter.2 Originality. Maybe you know how to turn a phrase better than any wordsmith you know. Perhaps you wrote

The Millions

4 min. di lettura

As I think is the case for most writers born after 1980, the first outlets to publish my work were online. To be more specific, they were blogs—online spaces that valued ideas and abstraction over narrative and detail. My writing followed an outline

NPR

3 min. di lettura

Akiko Busch sets out to argue against visibility, "the common currency of our time." But she neglects to expose why she dislikes social media and networked culture.

Amateur Photographer

5 min. di lettura

Perhaps the best artworks are those that are able to encapsulate a sense of time, place and identity. Back in 1922, James Joyce published his masterwork Ulysses. The writer’s intention was that if Dublin were wiped off the map by war, the city could

Literary Hub

6 min. di lettura

I find designing book covers to be tremendously difficult, and every time I start a new cover, my first thought is usually: Why on earth did I commit to this? Rarely do I find joy in this pursuit. I love the feeling of a perfect, beautifully finished

The Millions

10 min. di lettura

I came to the conclusion that what I loved more than anything, and what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, was to think. Period. The post Creating Wider, Deeper, Better Realities: The Millions Interviews Patrick Madden appeared first on The Mill

The Writer

3 min. di lettura

In June 2019, the new online history magazine Contingent put out a call for short essays that explore the influential blockbuster film Forrest Gump. “The 25th anniversary of Forrest Gump is nigh,” editors wrote on Twitter. “And for better or worse, i

Poets & Writers

3 min. di lettura

In her debut essay collection, Homing Instincts, Dionisia Morales takes on ideas of place and home. Framed by the day-to-day of Morales’s life—rock climbing, travel, pregnancy, moving from New York City to Oregon—the essays weave together research an

Literary Hub

5 min. di lettura

While the personal essay has enjoyed continued popularity, a book-length collection of linked essays, centered on an author’s self or life, is less common than a traditional memoir or novel. A truly successful essay collection can reveal the author p

Literary Hub

4 min. di lettura

As college acceptances and rejections begin to come in for the students I tutor, I’ve started to reflect on how very fraught with meaning their application essays can be. These young adults are facing the first of many acts of seeing themselves—acts

Writing Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Consequence is an international forum designed by its editors to address ‘the effects and realities of war and geopolitical violence, using literature and visual art’. The editorial team’s aim is ‘to offer emotional as well as intellectual access to

Indianapolis Monthly

4 min. di lettura

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, Robert Andrews filled out more than a dozen college applications and just as many essays, all in longhand. “As a first-generation college-bound student, I had no clue what I was doing,” he recounts. Now DePauw University’s vice pre

Futurity

2 min. di lettura

People consume far less information than expected before making judgments and decisions, a new study finds. Whether buying a new car, hiring a job candidate, or getting married, people assume they can and will use more information to make their decis

Poets & Writers

2 min. di lettura

Too Much and Not the Mood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April), a collection of personal and critical essays that explore art, literature, identity, and solitude, whose prose favors lyrical meandering over traditional narrative. Editors: Emily Bell and

Guernica Magazine

11 min. di lettura

This Is One Way To Dance is a timely collection about identity—where it comes from, what it means (and doesn’t), and what happens when we lose it.

Lifestyle Asia

1 min. di lettura

“I loved watching people try to figure out if they had something to say,” wrote Tolentino in her article on personal essays. Trick Mirror was released to acclaim, thanks to her keen eye and a fresh sharp voice that examined the current political and