This week we’re recommending Jason Diamond’s piece over at Electric Literature posing the question of why, exactly, 2014 seemed to be “the year of the essay.” Citing a wide range of literary memoirs, ranging from the personal to the political, published anywhere from established presses to open-source blogging sites, Diamond writes, “Whether it be from bleeding pens or carpal tunnel in the wrists, a lot of writers gave us great essays, many of them not bound into book form, but all of them showing that the future is very bright for the form.”
To see if you missed any of the most talked-about essays, blogs, or nonfiction collections of the year, go read Diamond’s wrap-up at Electric Literature, and of course, keep following the Broad Street blog for other nonfiction recommendations every week.
