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Dustin Parsons on Dropping Off
In January of 2013, I began an essay entitled “Drop Off.” On the surface, it was simply an essay about walking my son to the doors of his elementary school, watching him enter, and lamenting the fact...
View ArticleAndrew Maynard, When the Facts Aren't Enough
When the Facts Aren’t EnoughAndrew Maynard*In his most recent Netflix comedy special, Dave Chappelle addresses the comedians standing in the back of The World Famous Comedy Store. “Motherfuckers you...
View ArticleInt'l Essayists: Mary-Kim Arnold on How Language Makes & Unmakes Us
I decide to study Korean and so I spend a series of Saturday afternoons in a cramped classroom fifty miles from home.We are asked why we are taking the class and the answers are somewhat predictable –...
View ArticleOn Collecting: A Conversation with Thomas Mira Y Lopez
I am a collector. A compulsive hoarder, intent on keeping everything in the hopes of finding greater meaning. I collect rejection slips, Spell Master figurines, and broken bits of glass. I collect old...
View ArticleDarcy Jay Gagnon: Bush Clover and Moon / on Translating Fictional Nonfiction...
Bush Clover and MoonOn Translating Fictional Nonfiction in Bashō’s Travel Diaries Darcy Jay Gagnon*Over the past two years, I have been writing a biography of the 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo...
View ArticleRachel Z. Arndt: Looking for My Beach
The physical world was troubling me. In those early days of writing what would become Beyond Measure, my bangs never sat right and I was usually cold, except when I was sweatingly hot. My teeth...
View ArticleProse-Poem-Personal-Essays: A Bite-Sized Dose of Journey, Exploration, and...
As a poet and a essayist, and someone who reads widely in both genres, I see a very thin line between poetry and essay: specifically, when a poem is first-person, mostly linear, reads as prose, and...
View ArticleWhat’s So Normal About This, Anyway? On The Spirit of Disruption and The...
WHAT'S SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS, ANYWAY?On The Spirit of Disruption and The Normal School Nonfiction Series*Steven Church *In the late 90’s, after two years of putting my BA degree in philosophy to work...
View ArticleWhat is an Object? 14 Object Lessons Authors on their Objects
IWe can point to an object only because we perceive it as separate from other things, apart not only from other things in the object-world but also living beings. Yet glass troubles these simplifying...
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On ATTN:, attention, Aditi Machado, Harold Abramowitz and Andrea Quaid, and...
If you're a regular reader of this space, you know about our upcoming project, What Happened on June 21, 2018, in which we're inviting as many people as possible (writers, nonwriters, artists,...
View ArticleAfter Reykjavik: a Chorus of Reports
by Sam Cooney, Quinn Eades, Robyn Ferrell, Tresa LeClerc, Peta Murray, Janice Simpson, Sam van Zweden and Fiona Wright; curated and introduced by David CarlinPrelude (David):Over four days in the...
View ArticleInt'l Essayists: Christopher Doda on editing the Best Canadian Essays
Just over eight years ago I was asked, somewhat unexpectedly, to take over as Series Editor for the annual Best Canadian Essays. I say 'somewhat unexpectedly' because though I have published a great...
View ArticlePatrick Collier: What's Happening?
Dear Essay Daily readers:As you know, tomorrow, Thursday, June 21st, we are organizing an experiment in which we're asking you to pay attention to—and write about—what happens on that day. Write and...
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What Happened on June 21: Cila Warncke • Christopher Schaberg • Mel Hinshaw •...
Here we go, friends, with the first of many posts over the next month or so of What Happened on June 21, 2018. More details on the project here, but, in brief, we asked you to write about what happened...
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What Happened on June 21: Rachel Stilley • Debby Thompson • Andrew Bomback •...
Today we present ten more dispatches from June 21, 2018 to you. More details on the project here, but, in brief, we asked you to write about what happened on one day in June, and are publishing the...
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What Happened on June 21, 2018: Maddie Norris • Amy Butcher • Michele Sharpe...
Today we present ten more dispatches from June 21, 2018 to you. More details on the project here, but, in brief, we asked you to write about what happened on one day in June, and are publishing the...
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June 25: Allie Leach • Erik Anderson • Sara Marchant • Pamela Krueger •...
Today we present ten more dispatches from June 21, 2018 to you. More details on the project here, but, in brief, we asked you to write about what happened on one day in June, and are publishing the...
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June 26: Emily Sinclair • Linda Sage • Sylvia Chan • Renée E. D’Aoust • Beth...
Today we present ten more dispatches from June 21, 2018 to you. More details on the project here, but, in brief, we asked you to write about what happened on one day in June, and are publishing the...
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June 27: Bethany Maile • Jordan Wiklund • Tom McAllister • Sarah Ruhlen •...
Today we present ten more dispatches from June 21, 2018 to you. More details on the project here, but, in brief, we asked you to write about what happened on one day in June, and are publishing the...
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