This first-of-its kind collection of short nonfiction showcases the second-person point of view. Contributors contemplate a wide range of topics, including pregnancy, death, sexuality, regret, desire, incest, birds, coming of age, dreams, planetary motion, memory, transgendered children, music, house remodels, dating and relationships, the 1980s, interrogation and torture, last wills & testaments, accidents, technology, art, parenthood, dogs, dance, food, anxiety, physics, and writing. Includes essays by: Marcia Aldrich, Jenny Boully, Steven Church, Joan Connor, Alice Elliott Dark, Eduardo Galeano, Margot Kahn, Kim Dana Kupperman, Nick Lantz, Amy Leach, Paul Lisicky, Sonja Livingston, Rebecca McClanahan, Brenda Miller, Penelope Schwartz Robinson, Mimi Schwartz, Dustin Beall Smith, Elizabeth Stone, and Linda Underhill

You. An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person

Literature & Fiction

EDUARDO GALEANO

Kim Dana Kupperman

Rebecca McClanahan

Marcia Aldrich

Jenny Boully

Joan Connor

Alice Elliott Dark

Margot Kahn

Nick Lantz

Amy Leach

Paul Lisicky

Sonja Livingston

Brenda Miller

Penelope Schwartz Robinson

Mimi Schw

Steven, Church

Essays & Correspondence

Welcome Table Press

<p>Includes essays by: Michel de Montaigne, William Cornwallis, Thomas Culpepper, Charles Colton, Joseph Addison, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alexander Smith, Virginia Woolf, Georg Lukàcs, Christopher Morley, G. K. Chesterton, Theodor Adorno, Robert Atwan, Réda Bensmaïa, Carl Klaus, R. Lane Kauffmann, Phillip Lopate, Hélène Cixous, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nancy Mairs, Cynthia Ozick, John D'Agata, Brian Lennon, Lia Purpura, David Shields. </p>
<p>This collection of essays features essayists writing about the essay as a literary form, from its creation in the fifteenth century by Michel de Montaigne to its contemporary manifestations. The essays consider, define, categorize, and reveal aspects of the essay differently from any other anthology, and the anthology contains work that is not anthologized elsewhere.</p>

Essaying the Essay

David Lazar

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