The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Phillip Lopate games & puzzles and gentle wit

and gentle wit

they present a powerful manifesto for how - together - we can start to create a better future

First I remember the darkness

What matters more than clearing out your closets is how much trust you have in your inner guidance

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Phillip Lopate games & puzzles and gentle witFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking