Essay Versus Memoir, or Writing to Live

Essay Versus Memoir, or Writing to Live

by | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Writing

Last fall, I was teaching a workshop on how to write essays, and one question came up again and again: what is an essay. A simple question from the outside, but a harder one to answer from the inside, because so much of what is called an essay these days feels like a lot of other things.