Contemporary America

Why doesn't anyone like to read essays? 

I'm not going to lie, they're a tad boring.

But... I believe that one of the biggest reasons why people don't like reading them is because the pace of an essay is meant to be slow. Essays are strong and (generally) short with hard hitting, in your face sentences. 

In contemporary fiction you have easy & readable pages with a climax ever so often. 

In Essays, you get punch lines left and right. 

An old professor once told me that real fiction... strong, great fiction is meant to be read like an Essay because there are punch lines everywhere.

Have you ever tried reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground like you would read anything else?

How about Henry James's The Turn of the Screw or The Aspen Papers?

Twain?

Shakespeare? 

POE?!

It is all the same. Read it and you won't understand anything until you have a close reading. 

Essays and Fiction are a lot like Poetry.

A last reason why we don't like reading essays is because we are actually using our brains. Essays force us to learn... to think. Did you know that the average reading level of an American is that of an Eighth Grader!

So how difficult do you think New York Time's Best-Selling Authors are going to write the books we read?

Let's. Break it. Down.

They are going to cater to the majority.

Darn.

THIS STOPS NOW. I am not going to support Dumb Contemporary American Literature.