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Dervish Essays
How could The Humble Essayist resist Robert Vivian’s newest book of “Dervish Essays.” Each piece is lyrical, tracing the solitary mind at...

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Feb 14, 20201 min read
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Kathleen Jamie at THE
Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland. She is one of Britain's leading poets and the author of acclaimed works of non-fiction,...

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Feb 7, 20201 min read
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Hilton Als at THE
Our stunning Paragraph of the Week is by New Yorker writer Hilton Als. Check it out here: www.the-humble-essayist.com. Also, note our new...

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Jan 31, 20201 min read
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Jill Talbot at THE
We're excited about this week's commentary which is a first for The Humble Essayist: a video essay based on a paragraph by Jill Talbot....

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Jan 24, 20201 min read
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Amy Wright at The Humble Essayist
For years now poet and essayist Amy Wright has been writing prose translations of Emily Dickinson under the title “The Butterfly Nail.” ...

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Jan 17, 20201 min read
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Ana Maria Spagna at THE
The Paragraph of the Week comes from a recent essay called “The Lawns, So Well-Tended” by Ana Maria Spagna. In it the author reluctantly...

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Jan 10, 20201 min read
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New Year at THE
We kick off our fifth year with a feature from Stumbling into Joy by Kate Hopper about accomplishing in midlife her dream of playing the...

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Jan 3, 20201 min read
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Steve Almond at THE
The Paragraph of the Week, taken from William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, is about the need to nurture private...

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Nov 29, 20191 min read
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Sonya Huber at THE
This week at The Humble Essayist the writer, Sonya Huber, takes on the old writing workshop chestnut "show, don't tell." The terse...

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Nov 22, 20191 min read
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Fleischmann at THE
The Paragraph of the Week, from by T Fleischmann, explores art and the body, identity and community from the author's transgendered...

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Nov 15, 20191 min read
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Michael Steinberg at THE
“In his essay ‘Elegy for Ebbets’ Michael Steinberg overcomes cynicism and sentimentality to reclaim his childhood love of baseball.”—THE...

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Nov 8, 20191 min read
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Judith Kitchen at THE
Judith Kitchen who died the first week of November five years ago, practiced the art of essay and memoir with consummate skill and...

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Nov 1, 20191 min read
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Paul Hawken at THE
In his 2007 book Blessed Unrest the environmentalist Paul Hawken called for “an assembly of humanity that is representative but not...

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Oct 25, 20191 min read
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Jack Turner at THE
A guide for decades in the in Yosemite and the Grand Tetons who also hiked the mountains of Peru, Nepal, Pakistan, China, Tibet, and...

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Oct 18, 20191 min read
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Linda Hogan at THE
Linda Hogan is an essayist and novelist of Chickasaw ancestry and co-editor of the anthology Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and...

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Oct 11, 20191 min read
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Scott Russell Sanders, The End of Nature Series
In 2017 we started a new feature at The Humble Essayist called The End of Nature Series in honor of Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking essay...

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Oct 4, 20192 min read
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Fleda Brown on Memory
“Why do writers put themselves through such painful remembering Fleda Brown asks in ‘Grass-covered Chest?’” This week we take on an issue...

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Sep 27, 20191 min read
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Brevity Magazine Publishes "The Wordless Woods"
I am pleased that Brevity magazine has chosen to feature my essay “The Wordless Woods” in its new September edition. Thanks to Dinty...

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Sep 16, 20191 min read
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The Paragraph of the Week
The Paragraph of the Week at The Humble Essayist goes to Jill Talbot. Check it out www.the-humble-essayist.com.

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Sep 2, 20191 min read
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Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!
We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your...

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Aug 31, 20191 min read
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