essayist

Waldie, essayist and cultural historian, is the author of “Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place,” among other books.

Joy Peskin is a senior executive editor, essayist and youth advocate.

The musician was also known as an acclaimed essayist and poet, with an irrepressible sense of humour.

Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.

It’s as if everyone’s a budding essayist on psychology, which makes a situation that trades on recklessness and delusion harder to swallow.