My favourite essays

what is the literary tradition out of which I’m working? The form that releases my best intelligence… The motor of the novel is story; the motor of the ess...

what is the literary tradition out of which I’m working? The form that releases my best intelligence… The motor of the novel is story; the motor of the essay is thought… The world exists. Why re-create? I want to think about it, try to understand it. What I am is a wisdom junkie, knowing all along that wisdom is, in many ways, junk. I want a literature built entirely out of contemplation and revelation… I don’t seek to narrate time but to investigate existence. Time must die. – David Shields even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. You

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