Recently I have been teaching a course on essay writing forĀ Kahini. While I was preparing I became concerned that my own essay reading might be too narrow so I put a request on Twitter for people to tell me their favourite essays or essayists.
It was too good a list to keep to myself.
In no particular order, and with no endorsements or credits for the suggestions, here are the essayists my Twitter network provided:
Eula Biss
Charles D’Ambrosio, Loitering, a collection
Joan Didion
Annie Dillard
Jenni Diski
David Foster Wallace
Helen Garner
Natalia Ginzburg
Mark Greif, Against Everything
Jay Griffiths
Siri Hustvedt . ++
Paul Kingsnorth
Barbara Kingsolver
Kei Miller
Andrew O’Hagan, The Secret Life, a collection, andĀ The Tower
George Orwell
Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Solnit
John Jeremiah Sullivan
James Wood
Some of these authors were familiar to me and will be familiar to lots of people but others are newer or from a different place or parts of the universe I have yet to visit. Thank you so much to the people who replied to my tweet.
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