“Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my gardens not being finished.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Complete Essays,” 1572
Known as the father of modern skeptici.
“Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my gardens not being finished.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Complete Essays,” 1572
Known as the father of modern skeptici.
Three Cheers for the Maker of the Modern Essay: Michel de Montaigne
I am a lover of essays.
Every morning, shortly after dawn, I sit at my laptop, coffee at hand, and explore the internet looking for pieces to read for enjoyment or as a kickoff for an article of my own.
On my bookshelves are scores of novels, once also a favorite genre, but over the years I have amassed equal numbers of volumes of essays, collections by such diverse writers as Joseph Epstein, Richard Mitchell, Alice Thomas Ellis, Hilaire Belloc, and Florence King. Here too are anthologies like Phillip Lopate’s “The Art of the Personal Essay” and Epstein’s “The Norton Book of Personal Essays.”