What are some good essay collections /lit/?

>>9975329
Complete Montaigne

>>9975346
This.
W.H. Gass's are worthy. Check out Finding a Form.
Coleridge's Friend Essays, Lamb's Elia, Hazlitt's Table Talk Essays are all very good collections.

>>9975329
Cynthia Ozick's Fame and Folly and Metaphor and Memory collections.

Seneca's Letters

Masscult and Midcult by Dwight MacDonald

>>9975329
Shooting an Elephant
Other Inquisitions
How to Travel with a Salmon

As I recall - it's been awhile - David Mamet's Reading in Restaurants is an enjoyable collection, as his collection The Cabin.

What Mamet said about The Goshawk applies to his own work: "The prose is hard and clear as crystal. It is unsentimental, it is simply written, it is a delight and an inspiration.''

Emerson's and Thoreau's few, of course.

>>9975329
That looks delicious, what is it called?

>>9978283
Obesity.

My diary, desu.

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Heretics by G.K. Chesterton. It gets more fun the more /lit/ you are, because it's essentially Chesterton respectfully dunking all over some of his famous literary peers, like Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. There's also an essay about the family in it that I particularly love.

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>>9975329

Illuminations by Walter Benjamin