Episode 90: Essays, Part I

This week’s episode is all about essays! From nature writing, to reviews and criticism, to personal reflections and familiar essays, this form offers something for everyone. In this episode, we share our thoughts and experiences, including our go-to varieties and favorite examples. What are yours?

Shownotes

Books

The Woman in Black, by Susan Hill

Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy

We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

Herscht 07769, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

The Emporium: A Health Resort Horror Story, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Any Person Is the Only Self, by Elisa Gabbert

The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman

At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, by Anne Fadiman

Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, by Viviane Gornick

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion

The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison

Make It Scream, Make It Burn, by Leslie Jamison

The Hall of Uselessness, by Simon Leys

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young

The Death of Napoleon, by Simon Leys

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, by Terry Tempest Williams

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice, by Terry Tempest Williams

Erosion, by Terry Tempest Williams

Finding Beauty in a Broken World, by Terry Tempest Williams

The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane

Leap, by Terry Tempest Williams

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, by Terry Tempest Williams

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Seduction and Betrayal, by Elizabeth Hardwick

The Fun Stuff, by James Wood

Widening the Skirts of Light, by Rohan Maitzen

Feel Free, by Zadi Smith

On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

On Beauty and Being Just, by Elaine Scarry

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