Montaigne invented the essay form, a personal approach to reflection and self-exploration. Composing essays invites the writer to question, doubt, and think. Join this group for a practice of reading and engaging with examples of the personal essay as a writer might, to mine techniques and ideas for an essay or essays of your own. We’ll explore such writers as Barry Lopez, Joan Didion, E.B. White and others. Each class meeting will include time reading and discussing an example essay and writing exercises designed to generate material and draft essays of our own.
New in-person course. Format includes discussion and hands on learning.
