What are some of the best essay collections? I feel it's a very underrated medium on this board

What are some of the best essay collections? I feel it's a very underrated medium on this board.

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I'm reading through The Essays of Warren Buffett and it's pretty solid so far if finance is your thing.

does Yea Forums not read essays?

most of us are only here to shitpost

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Im reading some of Borges' and they are pretty good

Montaigne is the best as I suspect you know.

yeah, but i was looking for other recommendations.

Yea Forums doesn't even read

Essays in Idleness by Kenkō

Yea Forums doesn't read period.

Read Fanged Noumena.

If you can read french try philippe muray's

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

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Susan Sontag
Joan Didion
James Baldwin
Flannery O'Connor

And for some lesser-known but still pretty good ones I've read,
Simon Leys
Elizabeth Hardwick
B.J. Hollars

Samuel Johnson

Why would I want to read -what are essentially-someone's blogposts?

they're really good blogposts.

Three words: Updike, Updike, ad Updike.

Chesterton's "Heretics" is a great essay collection.

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>reading women and fags

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I enjoy Emerson’s essays very much

Lamb and Bacon

all three apologies are worth a read

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updike's essays are really great, yeah.