Stories
Essays
A form for thinking in public without pretending you have finished.
They sit with journalism, literature, and the teaching of a paragraph that turns.
Essayists often have several interests and need a room where the join is allowed to show.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside essays reads “thinking in public, unfinished on purpose.” It tends to meet journalism, literature, and education.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside essays: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.