Essays / Random Wanderings of Mind and Body (formerly Lost Essays)

Let Ben encourage good sleep. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-hill31/message

Where have all the cowboys gone? - Explore two centuries of the American Cowboy with C.L. Sonnichsen in his essay investigating the character of the American Icon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-hill31/message

Find out what D.S. Savage thought about Hemingway in his 1950 collection of criticism - The Withered Branch --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-hill31/message

Revisit Crothers' essay exploring the difficulty of becoming a unique person in a society that limits the individual's interest. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-hill31/message

What is the objective of reading unless something definite comes of it? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael-hill31/message

Is the American Southwest Edward Abbey's land? Lawrence Clark Powell might disagree with his extensive study of those who embraced the area decades and centuries before Abbey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/message

Let's get judgemental here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/message

Joan Didion is a complex writer who created easily readable text. If you enjoy essays and period pieces check out her writing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Daniel Defoe's - "The Instability of Human Glory". A lesser known essay from the guy that wrote Robinson Crusoe. Enjoy --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

A timeless examination of how to be heard. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Sir Francis Bacon's thoughts about wealth. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Let's see what Woodrow Wilson plans to do about the hustle and bustle of 1912. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

What would Teddy think about the "Strenuous Life" of 2022? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

While not an essay - Nikolai Gogol's protagonist in Diary of a Madman transcends time and can teach many lessons today - so while it is almost just flash fiction - it, in my opinion, has some essay qualities. Enjoy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Bangs thinks books are medicine - some think books are poison. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Robert Louis Stevenson wants you to cut class - listen to his support of truancy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Is reading expensive? A luxury reserved only for the few? Find out on Lost Essays. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Let us exist for a moment with a young Albert Halper in his first writing environment. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Check out this interesting look at doors. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Let us join E.B. White while he attempts to clean house. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

First appearing in Atlantic Monthly - Helen Keller creates an emotionally moving piece of prose. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

Join Lost Essays as we discover author Charles S. Brooks and visit his essay - Serious Stupid Persons. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-hill31/support