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Words and Their Users: Wrestling with John D'Agata's Canonry

I suppose it was inevitable. The age of self-disclosure-memoir writing, celebrity tweets, one-person Broadway shows, jihadist pre-bomb goodbye videos-would give way to one editor's need to order up a new hegemony for that intractable thing we call the essay...
Keywords: a new history of the essay, book review