We love talking about essays so much, we decided to do it again! This week, we pick up where we left off a few episodes ago, chatting about more of our favorite essayists and collections. We also share a few from our essay TBR piles. What are some of your favorites?
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Books
Greenglass House, by Kate Milford
Ghosts of Greenglass House, by Kate Milford
The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
The Unforgivable, by Cristina Campo
You Like It Darker, by Stephen King
Every Arc Bends Its Radian, by Sergio De La Pava
A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava
Ghosts, by Edith Wharton
Europe in Sepia, Dubravka Ugresic, translated by David Williams
Karaoke Culture, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated by David Williams
Muzzle for Witches, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Thank You for Not Reading, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth, with contribution from Damion Searls
Fox, by Dubravka Ugresic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams
An Elemental Thing, by Eliot Weinberger
A Chance Meeting: American Encounters, by Rachel Cohen
Sightlines, by Kathleen Jamie
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman
The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay
The Book of (More) Delights, by Ross Gay
Pulphead, by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace
A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write, by Melissa Pritchard
The Common Reader, by Virginia Woolf
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Felix Holt: The Radical, by George Eliot
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
The God of Endings, by Jacqueline Holland
Melvill, by Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young
Angel in the Forest, by Marguerite Young
The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker
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Episode 92: Essays, Part II