I am an essayist at heart. I love to read them and yes, I love to write them. To me, the essay projects the idea in the most clear and astute way possible. It is discernment in the most profound way.
Like a great piece of fiction it can be long and laborious as Les Miserables, or brief and to the point as Kate Chopins, Story of an Hour. Books that read as long essays excite me and stir up the inspiration needed to write. Books such as, Reading Lolita in Tehran, or The Bookseller of Kabul suck me in because they seem to be, between those cover of theirs, one long, lovely and inviting essay.
I was excited, when, at the librarys bookstore I found, The Best American Essays, 2007. I can not wait to pick through this emerald.
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