All the essays collected here began life elsewhere as reviews and higher journalism.
The essays, which are timed at about 50 minutes each, begin today and continue tomorrow.
As his essay begins to show, though, today's publishing realities aren't all that bad.
Originally published in 1957, the essay begins with a simple photograph of a Dutch girl sitting outside her school and holding a cat.
His essays, short stories, reviews and opinion pieces began appearing in 1966.
Weeks go by and essays begin to pour into the Grill from far and wide.
The essay began circulating in 1440, but was heavily rejected by the Church.
A similar essay of homosexual men begins more obviously with the line "Sometimes men are kissing" but is less well known.
Thus begins Francis Bacon's essay on truth, published in 1597.