Introversion Has Its Limits
Adam Mars-Jones: ‘Essayism’, 8 March 2018
Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found
by Bella Bathurst.
Wellcome, 224 pp., £8.99, February 2018,978 1 78125 776 0 Show More
by Bella Bathurst.
Wellcome, 224 pp., £8.99, February 2018,
Proxies: A Memoir in Twenty-Four Attempts
by Brian Blanchfield.
Picador, 181 pp., £9.99, August 2017,978 1 5098 4785 3 Show More
by Brian Blanchfield.
Picador, 181 pp., £9.99, August 2017,
“... feats of intellectual scampering; both give the sense of a live mind being decanted onto the page. Brian Dillon’s Essayism, both a book of essays and a meditation on the form, doesn’t include Davenport in his pantheon of practitioners, but Dillon’s responsiveness is wide, to Virginia Woolf, to William Gass, to Susan Sontag, to Lester Bangs and to Roland ... ”