![]() ![]() They’re a few pages of bright, cheery fun in an otherwise dreary day. We laugh at these little slices of life because they’re relatable. At their best, such small pieces effectively capture a more innocent place and less cluttered time between the World Wars, when jocularity and a wry series of chuckles was all a reader ever needed. Montaigne developed the form, but few could effectively capture brief moments like the master. White used to fill the pages of the New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. ![]() Humorous sketches and occasionals by James Thurber and E.B. These pieces are usually humorous and intended as filler. Call them “flash” essays, micro-sketches, or whatever the consensus tells us is the latest name for what is sometimes called “occasionals”. The brief “essay” might be tougher to pull off than longform essays and extended confessional memoirs that desperately pad themselves with scenes in order to justify being sold as a book. ![]()
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