I think PG is trying too hard to generalize with a lot of his latest essays.
Many of those essays seem like he's trying to take his experiences and take them up a level of abstraction, and apply them across a whole swath of human experience. That's hard, and it falls a little flat on the receiving end when it doesn't land.
He's still got it on some topics. I loved his essay on having kids.
Many of those essays seem like he's trying to take his experiences and take them up a level of abstraction, and apply them across a whole swath of human experience. That's hard, and it falls a little flat on the receiving end when it doesn't land.
He's still got it on some topics. I loved his essay on having kids.