Essay of the Month: “The Decay of Essay Writing”
"The peculiar form of an essay implies a peculiar substance; you can say in this shape what you cannot with equal fitness say in any other.”
Essay of the Month
Hearn’s “Memphis To New Orleans”
The Common Reader’s inaugural essay by Lafcadio Hearn, one of the most acclaimed journalists of the 19th century. Born 1850 in Lefkada, Greece, Hearn became most famous for his writings about Japan. Before that, however, he was a well-known New Orleans journalist.