By my count there are ... flooded with responses to her essay, which essentially asked: What would your life look like if you cared much less about what other people think of you?

Didion’s essay is not sympathetic, but it helped make her famous. And rightfully so ... I’m working on my own memoir. When people find out who I am they’re often shocked and then fascinated.

This is our third annual Trust Me On This series, in which famous and ... if it’s just my feed, but I feel like 70 percent of what people share on Facebook are personal essays.

It’s fairly clear what prompted Larry David’s satirical essay today for the New York Times entitled “My Dinner With Hitler ... of centrist-minded people who think there's got to ...

We asked essayists to write a letter to the person they were when ... the man that gave you papers and then you married someone else? You are awesome!” My troubled romantic past had felt ...