For the essay lovers' holiday gift list, picks from Brooke Wonders & Jacqueline Doyle

Brooke Wonders:

I (and everyone else) loved D'Ambrosio's Loitering, especially the essay "Visiting Hell," on visiting an evangelical haunted house. Brian Oliu's lyric essay collection Leave Luck to Heaven also deserves a mention.

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Jacqueline Doyle:

Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Stephen D. Gutierrez, The Mexican Man in his Backyard: Stories and Essays
Judith Kitchen, Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate