This is a book on how to read the essay, one that demonstrates how
reading is inextricably tied to the art of writing. It aims to
treat the essay with the close literary attention that has been
given to other literary forms. Patricia Hampl explores F. Scott
Fitzgerald's famously confessional "The Crack-Up" from what was
once his grandmother's house in St. Paul, Minnesota; Sven Birkerts
compares the power of Cynthia Ozick's brief essay "A Drugstore in
Winter" to "watching an enormous jet achieve lift-off from the
shortest little patch of tarmac;" and Gayle Pemberton turns to
Ralph Ellison for a "bracing blast of air" when the racism in
contemporary American culture seems inescapable. At once personal
appreciation's and acute critical assessments, these pieces broaden
our perspective on the essay as a literary art form.
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