Hello,
I’m writing something about my love of writing essays for tomorrow’s post, but it got me thinking about my own favourites. The ones that spring immediately to mind are Jenny Diski’s A Feeling for Ice, John Berger’s Some Notes About the Art of Falling, and Annie Dillard’s Bethlehem.
Then is sprial outwards to essayists instead of specific essays; I will read anything by Jon Ronson, Christina Sharpe, Arundhati Roy, Emma Dabiri, Stephen Jay Gould, Kathryn Schulz, Helen Macdonald, Zadie Smith, Jay Griffiths, Andrew O’Hagan, Samantha Irby, David Sedaris, Deborah Levy, Ross Gay, Sarah Krasnostein, Marina Hyde, Sam Knight, Pico Iyer… I could go on. And on. And on.
Which got me wondering - what essays or essayists do you love? I worry that by asking this question I will be setting myself an enormous list, but - oh! - what a list it will be!
(I keep going back to that list above and adding new names, so I’m going to hit publish before this takes over my entire day…)
Yours in anticpation,
Katherine