Essay Club summer syllabus
Join Essay Club and meet with us on Mondays at 7pm ET to read and talk about these classics:
- David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster" (June 22nd)
- Leslie Jamison, "The Empathy Exams" (June 29th)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (July 6th)
- Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp" (July 13th)
- Meghan O'Gieblyn, "Homeschool" (July 20th)
- Michel de Montaigne, "To philosophize is to learn how to die" (July 27th)
- Virginia Woolf, "Street Haunting" (August 3rd)
- George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" (August 10th)
- E.B. White, "Once More to the Lake" (August 17th)
- Jo Anne Beard, "The Fourth State of Matter" (August 24th)
- Joan Didion, "Goodbye To All That" (August 31st)
- G.K. Chesterton, "On Lying in Bed" (September 8th, *Tuesday)