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Not Long Ago Personal Essays Were Everywhere. Now, They’ve Disappeared…

WORDS Posted: May 19, 2017 1:02 pm

By September, 2015, online first-person writing was so abundant that Laura Bennett, at Slate, could refer to a “first-person industrial complex” in a takedown of the genre. “Every site seems to have a first person vertical and a first-person editor,” Bennett, who also cited Gould’s Times story as a turning point, wrote. The market, in Bennett’s view, had overinflated. She was right: a year and a half later, it barely exists.

WORDS Published: 05.18.17

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 05.18.17

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