What matters more than clearing out your closets is how much trust you have in your inner guidance
and gentle wit
Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin
Emerging in 1978 from Glasgow's post-punk scene
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Phillip Lopate games & puzzles What matters more than clearingFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking