{"id":9174,"date":"2026-06-06T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:26:24","slug":"ep27-the-art-of-the-personal-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2026\/06\/06\/ep27-the-art-of-the-personal-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"EP#28: The Art of the Personal Essay*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present<\/em>, ed. Phillip Lopate, 1994. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 2026 \u2014 ???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the 27th book we&#8217;ve tackled for the Essays Project. This is a giant anthology which should keep us going through the summer \u2013 and given anticipated travel likely well into next year. While we had considered being more eclectic, and curating batches of essays from various authors, after one trial (Johnson, EP#26) it seemed easier to return to a published anthology which both eases the burden of selection, and guarantees us paper pages upon which to make notes. So here we gol <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2026\/06\/06\/ep27-the-art-of-the-personal-essay\/#Introduction\" >Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2026\/06\/06\/ep27-the-art-of-the-personal-essay\/#Seneca_On_Noise_Asthma_Scipios_Villa_Slaves\" >Seneca: On Noise; Asthma; Scipio&#8217;s Villa; Slaves<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2026\/06\/06\/ep27-the-art-of-the-personal-essay\/#Plutarch_Consolation_to_His_Wife\" >Plutarch: Consolation to His Wife<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xxx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Seneca_On_Noise_Asthma_Scipios_Villa_Slaves\"><\/span>Seneca: On Noise; Asthma; Scipio&#8217;s Villa; Slaves<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xxx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Plutarch_Consolation_to_His_Wife\"><\/span>Plutarch: Consolation to His Wife<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xxxx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-medium-pink-color\">&#8230; reading break &#8230;<\/mark><\/p>\n<p>Views: 1<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, ed. Phillip Lopate, 1994. June 2026 \u2014 ??? This is the 27th book we&#8217;ve tackled for the Essays Project. This is a giant anthology which should keep us going through the summer \u2013 and given anticipated travel likely well into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2026\/06\/06\/ep27-the-art-of-the-personal-essay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EP#28: The Art of the Personal Essay*<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,78,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-now-reading","category-the-essays-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions\/9205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}