books / essay
Looking for an essay collection
Books to dip into. One essay before bed, kind of thing.
- Bluets — Maggie Nelson 2009240 numbered fragments, all about blue.
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem — Joan Didion 1968Still the gold standard.
- Trick Mirror — Jia Tolentino 2019Internet, drugs, identity, weddings.
- Thick — Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019Eight essays. Smart and incisive.
- The Empathy Exams — Leslie Jamison 2014Pain, medical actors, marathons.
- Late Migrations — Margaret Renkl 2019Birds, mother, the South.
- Pulphead — John Jeremiah Sullivan 2011Christian rock festival, Axl Rose, more.
- Consider the Lobster — DFW 2005The lobster essay alone is worth it.
- Upstream — Mary Oliver 2016Mary Oliver thinking about water and Whitman.
- Magical Negro — Morgan Parker essays/poemsHybrid. Singular voice.