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Ask HN: Who are your favorite essayists?
- argimenes 12y agoAlan Kay Kenneth Clark, art historian John Ruskin, art and social historian Slavoj Zizek, Marxist/Lacanian philosopher
- zem 12y agolewis thomas. combined solid science and excellent writing.
- mightymaike 12y agoNoam Chomsky Emma Goldman Tolstoy
- sjs382 12y agoChuck Klosterman
- brickcap 12y agoI don't have favourites I just go up on gutenberg and look for collections. This way I get to read essays from authors whom I hadn't read before. For example couple of months back I found 'all things considered' [1] a collection of selected essays by GK Chesterton. While the entire collection is good my favourites were in no particular order:- 1. On running afters ones hat 2. The fallacy of success 3. The worship of the wealthy These days I am reading Oxford book of American Essays[2]. I liked Benjamin Franklin's essays (The whistle was also in his autobiography). Consolation for the old bachelor (Francis Hopkinson) is very funny. Calvin a study of character (Charles Dudley Warner) is the strangest thing I have read in recent time, it is good though. [1]http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11505 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11505 [2]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40196/40196-h/40196-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40196/40196-h/40196-h.htm
- brandonlipman 12y agoI am not sure what you consider an essay versus a blogger. I am a big fan of Andrew Chen's essays. I love how through he is. He does not gloss over critical points/how to's like many marketing writers do. Link to his site: http://andrewchen.co/ http://andrewchen.co/