Few novelists have a great gift for the essay. Usually the essays of the professional novelist, the #MartinAmis type, have a between-work air. Among the Brits, the great essayist-novelists are #Lawrence, #Woolf and #Pritchett. I have been in love with Jimmy Joyce since highschool, and consider Ulysses the summit of art – but he was no essayist. https://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2022/10/woolf-as-essayist.html