See you in September? If you’re anywhere near Atlanta, come by the Decatur Book Festival, where my wife and I will be part of a panel entitled “Pairs with Pens.”
The University of Missouri Press, publisher of The American Essay in the American Century, recently posted an interview with me about the book and the state of the essay at their blog:
I think the role of the essay remains what it has been since Montaigne first came up with it in 1580, that is, to give us the …