# Essayism

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- Book: [Essayism](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-dillon/essayism) ([Essayism.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-dillon/essayism.md))
- Authors: [Brian Dillon](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-dillon)
- Publisher: New York Review Books
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-282-2
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2018-09-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter...