{"product_id":"9781681372822","title":"Essayism : On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon's style incorporates diverse features of the essay.By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his ownpersonal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49193941860579,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781681372822-1.jpg?v=1788405142","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781681372822","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}