The topic of essayism—one especially relevant to the Rumpus—is granted the meticulous attention it deserves in this opinion piece Christy Wampole wrote for the New York Times.
Wampole artfully weaves the essay’s deep history through a narrative about the development of a “meditative deficiency” in modren essay-writing. The essay, she insists, is capable of accommodating “our insecurities, our self-absorption, our simple pleasures, our unnerving questions and the need to compare and share our experiences with other humans” so long as essayists adhered to a more “measured” approach to writing about their subjects.
(In case any visitors of this site needed further affirmation as to why the essay is an important form.)
