A review by emilyrowanstudio
Essayism by Brian Dillon

4.0

I preferred the chapters(?) on his experience with depression, but can't deny these go hand in hand with the ones about essayism itself. A very strange book, and one that needs to be read as a whole to be understood. The beginning is surely pretentious and difficult to read, but it's well worth sticking with for the moving and insightful way he writes about depression, and how reading and writing brought/bring him back to himself. As another reviewer said, a great book for those who enjoy reading about reading.