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Review: Tegan Bennett Daylighton Brian Dillon
  • Essayism by Brian Dillon
  • Essayism by Brian Dillon Fitzcarraldo Editions
    152pp
    Published June, 2017
    ISBN 9781910695418

A Mole, A Viper, A Toad: Brian Dillon’s Essayism

What is Essayism? Its writer admits to us that he has ‘no clue how to write about the essay as a stable entity or established class, how to trace its history diligently from uncertain origins through successive phases of literary dominance’ – and praise be for that. The book is instead a series of attempts, of essays, of course, at delineating or describing the form.

May. 2018 • Non-fiction • The essay
Review: Maria Tumarkinon Meghan Daum
  • The unspeakable by Meghan Daum cover
  • The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum Farrar Straus Giroux
    244pp
    $46.95 AU
    Published November, 2014
    ISBN 9780374280444

What The Essayist Spills: The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum

What are essays for? They are for thinking about things that need to be thought about yet don’t get thought about much, or at all, or interestingly, or for long enough. They are for picking up ideas, feelings, forces in the air, still unnamed and amorphous, and giving them a foothold in language. Whatever is in the air and whatever is disappearing – unnoticed, unmourned. They are for resisting choices offered to us that are not true, yet made to seem inescapable.

Dec. 2015 • Non-fiction • The essay

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