Any Person Is the Only Self
A generous collection of essays on reading, writing, and the quiet pleasures of literary life.
15 books
By Elisa Gabbert
A generous collection of essays on reading, writing, and the quiet pleasures of literary life.
By James Salter
Recounting his years as a fighter pilot and writer, Salter's nostalgic and melancholic memoir drips with a Don Draper-esque masculinity.
By Jo Ann Beard
“My first love was poetry, my second love was fiction and my third and lasting love was the essay.”
By Annie Jacobsen
A cinematic glimpse into Armageddon.
By Marianne Brooker
Perfectly composed: a brilliant essay on care, grief, love and death.
By S.H. Fernando Jr.
A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
By Werner Herzog
Herzog has lived many lives and exudes an endless curiosity — as if, as a child, he fell into a Bavarian creek awash with potion and clambered out anew, like some German Obelix.
By Nan Shepherd
Spellbinding descriptions of walking the hills of the Cairngorms.