What are some good essayists? Need something suitable to an attention

>>9667301
Why don't you go ask reddit faggot.
Essays are the lowest medium of writing

Try Montaigne, Emerson, or Schopenhauer

>>9667301
David Foster Wallace. Ignore the memes and the shitposting. He's actually a very talented essayist. Don't rate his nonfiction writing based on Infinite Jest. Read his 'Consider the Lobster'. It's got some great essays. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.

>>9667646
I loved those essays on Federer and the US Open

Perhaps Didion?

>>9667301

>le classics
>>9667336
Samuel Johnson
William Hazlitt
Walter Pater
Virginia Wolfe

>modern pleb shit
Susan Sontag
John Berger
George Orwell
Gore Vidal
Joan Didion
Robert Hughes
William Gass

>>9667301
David Sedaris is entertaining. Not exactly deep and to read people discuss how great he is, is like eating shit. But he's entertaining

ignore >>9667646 DFW is a shittier nonfiction writer than he is a fiction writer.

>>9667674
Gibbon, Macaulay, etc

Most of these suggestions are toilet trash. Start with Bacon and Addison, then move on to Johnson, and then to Emerson and the essays of the James brothers.

If you're mainly interested in good writing and not big ideas, add Agnes Repplier and Johnn Updike.
If you want sound thought add, Edmund Wilson and HL Mencken.

>>9667301
I'd recommend Benjamin, but if you have no attention span then he's really not for you.