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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." \u2013Joan Didion
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\nIn Episode 73, Gen and Jette discuss the broad category of essay collections. From Joan Didion to Chuck Klosterman to Samantha Irby, essay collections cover a wide range of topics in a wide variety of forms. We love a good collection of essays, so we share a few of our favourites, discuss what works for us and what doesn't, and talk about a few on our TBR lists.  
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\nShow Notes:
\nWe've covered a few essay collections on the podcast: Episode 9 \u2013 Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, Episode 38 \u2013 Movies and Other Things by Shea Serrano, Episode 65 \u2013 Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins, Episode 68 \u2013 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
\nEssay writing opens up so many possibilities that we'd both love to explore in our own writing.
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\nGen's Essay Collection Recommendation: anything Zadie Smith has written
\nJette's Essay Collection Recommendation: But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman
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\nBooks and Authors Mentioned:
\nJoan Didion \u2013 Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, South and West
\nChuck Klosterman \u2013 But What If We're Wrong, Eating the Dinosaur, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, Killing Yourself to Live
\nSamantha Irby \u2013 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Wow, No Thank You
\nZadie Smith \u2013 Intimations, Changing My Mind, Feel Free
\nLike Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins
\nScratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin
\n101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
\nTrick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
\nThe Collected Schizophrenias by Esm\xe9 Weijun Wang
\nThey Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
\nHow to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
\nCrying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner