Status Updates From Selected Essays

Orwell’s essay on a childhood mostly spent in early-twentieth-century English boarding schools (“Such, Such Were the Joys”) is a perfect companion to C. S. Lewis’s chapters on the same thing in “Surprised by Joy” and also don’t read it if you don’t want your heart to bleed for the poor recourseless little boy

The first essay, "Why I Write" is so so good. Must read for anyone who aspires to be a writer.