{"id":77781,"date":"2014-10-08T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=77781"},"modified":"2014-10-08T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:15:12","slug":"what-is-an-essay-anyway-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/what-is-an-essay-anyway-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is an Essay, Anyway? and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77783\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/montaigne-dumonstier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77783\" class=\"wp-image-77783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/montaigne-dumonstier.jpg\" alt=\"Montaigne-Dumonstier\" width=\"600\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Michel de Montaigne, whom you can blame in part, maybe, for all these \u201cessays.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Essays\u2014e<em>ssais<\/em>, e<em>ssayes<\/em>\u2014what are they, how are they, where did they come from, why can\u2019t we seem to settle on the meaning of\u00a0them, is Montaigne to blame for all this, or Francis Bacon or maybe King James, and what\u2019s the meaning of all this \u201cattempting\u201d anyhow \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/ill-defined-plot\" target=\"_blank\">John Jeremiah Sullivan aspires (don\u2019t make me say <em>essays<\/em>) to find out<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Horace Engdahl, who helps to judge the Nobel Prize in Literature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/oct\/07\/creative-writing-killing-western-literature-nobel-judge-horace-engdahl\" target=\"_blank\">laments the \u201cprofessionalization\u201d of writing in the West<\/a>: \u201cI think it cuts writers off from society, and creates an unhealthy link with institutions \u2026 Previously, writers would work as taxi drivers, clerks, secretaries, and waiters to make a living. Samuel Beckett and many others lived like this. It was hard\u2014but they fed themselves, from a literary perspective.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relatedly: \u201cA growing number of biographers and historians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/08\/business\/media\/laura-hillenbrand-jon-meacham-adapt-titles-for-children.html\" target=\"_blank\">are retrofitting their works to make them palatable for younger readers<\/a> \u2026 And these slimmed-down, simplified and sometimes sanitized editions of popular nonfiction titles are fast becoming a vibrant, growing and lucrative niche.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Zadie Smith on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2014\/oct\/23\/find-your-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\">a certain famous populous island<\/a>: \u201cManhattan is for the hard-bodied, the hard-minded, the multitasker, the alpha mamas and papas. A perfect place for self-empowerment\u2014as long as you\u2019re pretty empowered to begin with. As long as you\u2019re one of these people who simply do not allow anything\u2014not even reality\u2014to impinge upon that clear field of blue. There is a kind of individualism so stark that it seems to dovetail with an existentialist creed: Manhattan is right at that crossroads. You are pure potential in Manhattan, limitless, you are making yourself every day.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn intellectual is a person who is mainly interested in ideas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/article\/confessions-of-an-aesthete\/\" target=\"_blank\">I am an aesthete<\/a>\u2014a person who is mainly interested in beauty. Nowadays the word <em>aesthete<\/em> carries with it the musty reek of high Victoriana. Still, there remains no better word to describe the way certain people\u2014people like me\u2014view the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essays\u2014essais, essayes\u2014what are they, how are they, where did they come from, why can\u2019t we seem to settle on the meaning of\u00a0them, is Montaigne to blame for all this, or Francis Bacon or maybe King James, and what\u2019s the meaning of all this \u201cattempting\u201d anyhow \u2026 John Jeremiah Sullivan aspires (don\u2019t make me say essays) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[15574,364,15571,1577,4027,15572,15573,1079],"class_list":["post-77781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-aesthetes","tag-essays","tag-horace-engdahl","tag-john-jeremiah-sullivan","tag-manhattan","tag-retrofitting","tag-young-readers","tag-zadie-smith"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Morning News Roundup for October 8, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is an essay, anyway, confessions of an aesthete, and other news.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/what-is-an-essay-anyway-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Is an Essay, Anyway? 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