Essayist


Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
The Year of Magical Thinking
How to Be Alone
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Men Explain Things to Me
Themes and Variations
Something Ere The End
The Eye in the Text: Essays on Perception, Mannerist to Modern (Princeton Essays on the Arts)
Neurological Anatomy in Relation to Clinical Medicine
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (The Cook's Classic Library)
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Bad Feminist
Writing requires great skill, painstaking patience, and he ability to perceive and express observations in a unique manner.
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Personal storytelling is akin to taking a detailed accounting of our actions, deeds, thoughts, and impulses, a comprehensive listing of our acts of depravity and kindness, an exhaustive statement of being. Scrolling backward through our muddling, taking an incisive look inside our hard case craniums, we gather a vision of the desired future course of action for ourselves and simultaneously send out a glimmer of morning light for people who witness our life force stammering its series of dashed, ...more
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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