WEEK 1: LIST ESSAY

WREAD the following list essays. Then write one of your own. 500-750 words. Create a thread to post it on blackboard under the WEEKLY DROP.

1. In The Making of the American Essay... up to 9-14 (Anne Bradstreet's "For My Dear Son Simon Bradstreet")--where she offers lessons in the form of aphorisms to her child/to the future/to a younger version of herself (what I wish I knew at your age)... a very good model for your first essay: A LETTER.

Then--

2. Sandra Newman uses the list for humor:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/woman-facts 

3. Meriwether Clarke uses lists to highlight research and juxtapose seemingly unrelated statements one after another to suggest a deeper relation:

http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/the-grimm-brothers-a-list-essay/

4. In what feels like an homage to Allen Ginsberg's famous poem, Howl, Leonard Michaels tells the memoir of himself and a decade, showing how context and personhood are inextricable:

https://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/in-which-we-go-back-to-the-fifties/

5. In these excerpts translated from the French of Frances Ponge's Soap-- one sees how any subject can become a list essay... commenting on daily life aphoristically/philosophically and its relationship to greater meaning:

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2016/07/fiction/excerpts-from-nioque