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The `I' that engages you; ESSAY: With the ease of an engaging conversationalist, Fadiman meditates on all things large and small - from her love of collecting butterflies to her admiration for Arctic explorers.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20070624
Author:Frase, Brigitte

Byline: Brigitte Frase

Special to the Star Tribune

The personal essay is the most endearing member of the genre. It is rooted in conversation, the kind of relaxed, bantering, informal exchange of personal information. Speaking of Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt, two of her beloved models in this most quixotic of forms, Anne Fadiman is describing her own method: "The familiar essayist didn't speak to the millions; he spoke to one reader, as if the two of them were sitting side by side in front of a crackling fire with their collars loosened, their favorite stimulants at ...

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