Essays read so far:
Ursula K Le Guin - Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation ⭐
Elizabeth Hardwick - When to Cast Out, Give Up, or Let Go
Hito Steyerl - Studies in Vertical Perspective
Joan Didion - Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
Rennie Sparks - Ants
Elizabeth Hardwick - The Art of the Essay ⭐
Elizabeth Hardwick - On Reading, and, On Reading the Writing of Women
Susan Sontag - The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer ⭐
Elizabeth Hardwick - Unknown Faulkner ⭐
Ursula K Le Guin - A Left-handed Commencement Address
Elizabeth Hardwick - Southern Literature, and, Suicide and Women
Laura Luciana - Artists Talking, or Posting in the Era of Doomscrolling
Christina Thompson - A Piece of Savage Mischief
Ursula K. Le Guin - "Where do you get your ideas from?" ⭐
Lur Alghurabi - You Either Die a Refugee or Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become the Diaspora Writer
Laurel Schwulst - My Website is a Shifting House next to a River of Knowledge
Yiyun Li - The Ability to Cry
Janine Mikozsa - How Not to Speak Polish
Elizabeth Hardwick - A Doll's House
Zoe Hu - Break the Aspiration Meter
Joyce Carol Oates - The Parables of Flannery O'Connor ⭐
Fay Zwicky - Influence and Independence
Nina Power - On Being Hated
Lisa Appiganesi - Dr. Death
Italo Calvino - The Traveler on the Map
Wang Xiaobo - The Maverick Pig ⭐
Yu Hua - Lu Xun
E.M. Cioran - The Trouble with Being Born Part 7 ⭐
Joan Acocella - Art Wins (on Elena Ferrante)
Johan Huizinga - Nature and the Significance of Play
Esme Weijan Wang - Diagnosis
Jean Paul Sartre - The End of the War
Annie Besant - The Physical Body
Soren Kierkegaard - Crop Rotation ⭐
Soren Kierkegaard - The Present Age
⭐= favourite
Updated 12 April