..” slow down and examine life and such concepts as place and reading and literature and family and custom and tradition.” Writers Voices talks with essayist Allen Mendenhall on his book – Of Bees and Boys. “….essays are an attempt to organize the fragmentation and disarray of ordinary experience in our own past.” “The essayist could go in any direction, it’s almost like being inside someone’s head.”
” That’s part of what writing essays involves…trying to figure out why you did something in the past. To examine really, strangeness of our own past.
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