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Anonymous Sun Apr 7 21:45:49 2019 No.12899287 [Reply] [Original]

What are some of the best essay collections? I feel it's a very underrated medium on this board.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 7 22:13:10 2019 No.12899438 >>12899287 I'm reading through The Essays of Warren Buffett and it's pretty solid so far if finance is your thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 01:00:14 2019 No.12900095 does /lit/ not read essays?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 01:00:59 2019 No.12900101 File: 302 KB, 1596x415, im only here to shitpost.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12900095 most of us are only here to shitpost

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 01:03:55 2019 No.12900112 >>12899287 Im reading some of Borges' and they are pretty good

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 01:22:00 2019 No.12900159 >>12899287 Montaigne is the best as I suspect you know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 01:24:40 2019 No.12900168 >>12900159 yeah, but i was looking for other recommendations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 01:25:52 2019 No.12900171 >>12900095 /lit/ doesn't even read >>12899287 Essays in Idleness by Kenkō

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 05:31:05 2019 No.12900793 >>12900095 /lit/ doesn't read period.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 05:37:33 2019 No.12900814 >>12899287 Read Fanged Noumena.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 05:43:54 2019 No.12900838 >>12899287 If you can read french try philippe muray's

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 09:00:36 2019 No.12901341 >>12899287 Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 09:26:04 2019 No.12901412 File: 415 KB, 739x1121, img_2147.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:37:28 2019 No.12901616 Susan Sontag Joan Didion James Baldwin Flannery O'Connor And for some lesser-known but still pretty good ones I've read, Simon Leys Elizabeth Hardwick B.J. Hollars

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:44:02 2019 No.12901632 >>12899287 Samuel Johnson

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 15:19:44 2019 No.12902948 Why would I want to read -what are essentially-someone's blogposts?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 16:13:35 2019 No.12903218 >>12902948 they're really good blogposts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 16:37:44 2019 No.12903327 >>12899287 Three words: Updike, Updike, ad Updike.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 16:41:57 2019 No.12903346 File: 1.28 MB, 1200x1462, chesterton.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Chesterton's "Heretics" is a great essay collection.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 16:45:43 2019 No.12903354 File: 46 KB, 960x453, IMG_20190314_231535.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12901616 >reading women and fags

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 17:03:29 2019 No.12903422 I enjoy Emerson’s essays very much

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 17:04:42 2019 No.12903429 Lamb and Bacon

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 18:03:20 2019 No.12903703 >>12903346 all three apologies are worth a read

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 18:41:13 2019 No.12903865 File: 14 KB, 255x234, f3fdfff47191c42c1af31253b79d3b65ba1bfb5978ea9cebc4b359d6fdbb32fc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12903354 >>>/pol/

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 23:47:29 2019 No.12905085 >>12903327 updike's essays are really great, yeah.