How to Write Usefully
On the essay form, I don't yet see a mention of the excellent 
Essays of E. B. White[1]. Yes, the same one from 'Strunk and White' of The Elements of Style.Two essays that I still vividly remember from the book (both were written around 1940s):(1) Coon Tree(2) Death of a PigThese 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.Get the entire book[1], his writing reeks with humanity.[1]https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060932237/essays-of-e-b-wh...