What are some good/essential essays /lit/?
>>9452094
Loren Eisley. Begin with The Night Country.
I've been really looking for some good essay collections.
I recently read a Lester Bangs collection, and damn that was fun to read. His influence on DFW is apparent.
Tanizaki: In Praise of Shadows
Read Finding a Form by William H. Gass.
The Book of Tea
Orwell
>>9452094
The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Oscar Wilde
Emerson and Chesterton have a very clean style. I enjoy reading them a lot.
>>9453654
Decay of Lying, Critic as Artist too.
Anything by the three greats: Carlyle, Ruskin, and Arnold