Personal Essays


So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Bad Feminist
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Little Weirds
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
We Should All Be Feminists
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Naked
A Room of One’s Own
Holidays on Ice
These Precious Days: Essays
Intimations
Never Say Invisible by Jeremy SchreiberThe Bright Hour by Nina RiggsThe Art of Death by Edwidge DanticatDrop by Drop by Judy CroomeCarrying the Tiger by Tony    Stewart
End of life memoirs
20 books — 8 voters
The Stories Of Tobias Wolff by Tobias WolffThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorBirds of America by Lorrie MooreTwo Lives by Janet MalcolmFierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
The Books Great Writers Recommend
89 books — 2 voters

Sarah Kasbeer
We make sense of violent events by choosing to deny that they happened—or by blaming the victim. This is true even if the victim is yourself.
Sarah Kasbeer, A Woman, a Plan, an Outline of a Man

Narrative essay writing affords sufficient opportunity for the writer to collect data, organize information, rationally process a matrix of collected material, reduce the essence of experience to assigned territories, and by doing so logically quantify their personal existence. Essay writing is an apt form to catalogue discordant incidences and as such writing prose oftentimes calls for the essayist to draw hard and fast classifications and conclusions.
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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