How to Write Usefully
On the essay form, I don't yet see a mention of the excellent 
<i>Essays of E. B. White</i>[1]. Yes, the same one from 'Strunk and White' of <i>The Elements of Style</i>.<p>Two essays that I still vividly remember from the book (both were written around 1940s):<p>(1) <i>Coon Tree</i><p>(2) <i>Death of a Pig</i><p>These are indeed essays with an "an odor of durability", as White puts it while he ruminates in the preface about what he was considering to publish.<p>Get the entire book[1], his writing <i>reeks</i> with humanity.<p>[1]<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060932237/essays-of-e-b-white/" rel="nofollow">https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060932237/essays-of-e-b-wh...</a>