I was just about to let loose with my latest personal essay when I encountered this buzzkill in The New Yorker: “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over.” I know I shouldn’t let my New Yorker reading pile up. This essay news was published in May. I have proceeded merrily, reading personal essays almost daily and, blissfully …
I was sitting at the kitchen table, reading too late into the morning — but, in this case, a great Andrew Sullivan piece about “manic information addiction” — when this happened. I got the message and we are heading out for a walk, Sullivan’s piece unfinished. http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html?mid=twitter-share-selectall Of course, the latest Hillary Clinton email story …
