Two new novels offer vivid essays in contrast between the default style of commemoration in London and New York respectively.
The entry is like a vivid, compacted little essay, rich in hunches and associations.
Luke Dittrich makes a more somber but no less vivid journey in an essay called "Walking the Border".
(Since signs are not discussed in the Treatise, the distinction between memory and imagination/reminiscence does not appear in that work, and both reminiscence and what the Essay calls vivid imagination are named "memory".
A reasonably priced, beautifully designed and illustrated book that brings together a selection of more than 100 forthright, scholarly, bold, vivid and fascinating critical essays by the former art critic of the Telegraph.
To the Editor: Geoffrey Nunberg's essay brought back vivid memories of that ruckus in the reference room.
Voltaire's work, to this point, consisted essentially of a mass of journalism, essays, poems, potted, vivid histories, and historical plays all pulled together in the public imagination by a single strong personality.
Lynch's aptitude for fiction comes as no shock; he's been a teller of tales all along, his poems and essays occupied by vivid characters siphoned from the world he moves through.
