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A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing

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Cristina Nehring on What's Wrong With the American Essay

Cristina Nehring on What s Wrong With the American Essay
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The essay is in a bad way. It’s not because essayists have gotten stupider. It’s not because they’ve gotten sloppier. And it is certainly not because they’ve become less anthologized. More anthologies are published now than there have been in decades, indeed in centuries. The Best American Essays series, which began in 1986, has reached 20 volumes. The problem is that these series rot in basements when they make it as far as that. I’ve found the run of American Essays in the basement of my local library, where they’ll sit with zero date stamps until released gratis one fine Sunday morning to a used bookstore that, in turn, will sell them for a buck to a college student who’ll place them next to his dorm bed and dump them in an end-of-semester clean-out. That is the fate of the essay today. ....

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