{"product_id":"essayism-on-form-feeling-and-nonfiction-paperback","title":"Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Dillon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssayism \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the essay. By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his own personal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Dillon \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Dublin in 1969. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Great Explosion \u003c\/i\u003e(short-listed for the Ondaatje Prize), \u003ci\u003eObjects in This Mirror: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Am Sitting in a Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn the Dark Room\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the UK editor of \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770369409312,"sku":"9781681372822","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/535b86035803f89b0452fe4227fd0693.webp?v=1780370326","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/essayism-on-form-feeling-and-nonfiction-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}