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Advent 2022, Dec 19, Nicole Walker, TikTok Manifestations by Non-Boomer,...
TikTok Manifestations by Non-Boomer, Non-Gen Z specimens: A Gen-X approach.Maxwell Sather (Gen Z), Zoe Sather (Gen Z), Nicole Walker (Gen X)*Abstract: TikTok is a media platform devoted primarily to...
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Advent 2022, Dec 20, Lawrence Lenhart, Toward an Unregulated Confessionalism:...
Toward an Unregulated Confessionalism: Prolegomenon to The Calling PartyLawrence Lenhart*With this sentence, I start a new essay. Its concept is twelve years in the making. Starting January 1,...
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Advent 2022, Dec 21, Susan Briante, Our Midwinter Days
Our Midwinter DaysSusan Briante*As I write this, the Christmas lights hung from our eaves strum a flickering tune against a sky the gray of water at the bottom of an old pan. The sun rose into clouds...
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Advent 2022, Dec 22, Ander Monson on the Pleasures of a Book all about Road...
Pain Might Actually Hurt?:on Sean T. Collins's Pain Don't HurtAnder Monson*1. On the spectrum of bad ideas for books, watching the Patrick Swayze movie Road House repeatedly and writing an essay a day...
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Advent 2022, Dec 23, Jenny Spinner, Um Aidan
Um AidanJenny Spinner*—Amman, Jordan, December 2022I remember that iris, a dome of florets now more gray than blue, not solid but patterned, with bits of white breaking through the way light spills...
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Advent 2022, Dec 24, Dave Griffith, Station X: Christmas Eve, Strawtowne...
Station X: Christmas Eve, Strawtowne PikeDave Griffith*Author’s note:“Station X” is part of a 14-part collaborative text and audio project between myself and printmaker and musician, Kyle Peets, that...
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Dec 25: Merry Christmas & an Invitation to Send Us Your Reading Recs
Merry Christmas!*Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and yours. Thanks for reading this year's Advent Calendar, all of which you can now find collected here. We'll take a break now for a bit, but...
View ArticleMordecai Martin, The Writer Goes To School: A Translation and...
Original Yiddish by Lamed Shapiro1, Translation and notes by Mordecai Martin2Toward the end of 1896, when I was almost still a child, I came to Warsaw3 with the explicit intention of conquering the...
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February 20, We Know Our Own Lives Expertly: a conversation with Hilary Plum
An account of care, labor, illness, friendship, professionalization, and political struggle, Hole Studies (Fonograf, 2022) explores radical possibilities. Over four essays, Hilary Plum describes...
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Andrea Flint, The Wisdom of Spear Grass
THE WISDOM OF SPEAR GRASSAndrea Flint*a cover of Sarah Minor's essay "A Log Cabin Square" *(click to expand, or click here to download a pdf)*I don’t have many vivid memories of my childhood. Mostly, I...
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The Essay in a Time of Genocide: An Invitation
(Source Al Jazeera)Around the globe, in real time, we are witnessing atrocities happening to the people of Gaza. Through our phones, our tablets, our televisions, we’re seeing the images that...
View ArticleEric LeMay on Unbearable Thoughts and the Bombing of Children
Embed from Getty ImagesPalestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrikeon the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023“Writing my children’s names on their bodies is the solution, so...
View ArticleNicole Walker on the Insistence of the Essay
I subscribe to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and my local paper, The Arizona Daily Sun. Unless you’re talking about how families receive $7,000 vouchers to remove their children from the...
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Dave Griffith on Thinking About Looking or The Essay as Ally
In the summer of 2017 I met Shaun King at the Chautauqua Institution–yes, that Chautauqua, where Salman Rusdhie was attacked and subsequently lost sight in his right eye. I was onboarding that summer....
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Patrick Madden on Exactitude in Translation (feat. Eduardo Galeano with a...
I have just finished reading Eduardo Galeano's last book, Hunter of Stories, in English translation, against Karina's advice, and I admit that she was utterly correct to question my judgment. I know...
View ArticleAndrew Maynard on Other People’s Children
When my wife, Ally, began to feel contractions last month, she tried to convince herself they weren’t real. With baby #1, her water broke on the due date, but these arrived nine days early, and it can...
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Zachary Ostraff on Glass Eyes
In London, England, I find myself looking at a display case of 16 glass eyes. These eyes show a variation of color. The darkest eye is dark brown, almost black. The lightest is sky blue. These eyes...
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The Essay in a Time of Genocide: Two Palestinian Writers and a Continuing Call
Maram Humaid’s five-month-old baby in Southern Gaza [Maram Humaid/Al Jazeera]For the past five weeks, Essay Daily has regularly featured pieces on the essay in a time of genocide. When we extended the...
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Dec 3, 2024: Nicole Walker, No Authority, Just Thanks
*This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and previous years' calendars here. *A year ago, I submitted a book...
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Dec 4, 2024: Kristine Langley Mahler, Joyful Girl
*This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and previous years' calendars here. *Joyful Girlafter Ani DiFrancoI...
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