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Essays…although they go back four hundred years to Montaigne, seem a mercurial, newfangled, sometimes hokey affair that has lent itself to many of the excesses of the age, from spurious autobiography to spurious hallucination, as well as to the shabby careerism of traditional journalism. It's a greased pig.

Edward Hoagland

Essays are associated with the way young writers fashion a name — on plain, crowded newsprint like The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, or The New York Review of Books, instead of the thick paper stock and thin readership of Partisan Review.

Edward Hoagland

Essays belong to the animal kingdom, with a surface that generates sparks, like a coat of fur, compared with the flat conventional cotton of the magazine article writer, who works in the vegetable kingdom, instead.

Edward Hoagland

Essays…hang somewhere on a line between two sturdy poles: This is what I think, and this is what I am.

Edward Hoagland