You know, like that essay Ayelet Waldman wrote about loving her husband more than her children, the one that made everyone parp their heads off.
I guess they're quite common in the US; just as memoirs are quite popular. Lots of self-centred writing over there, I guess!
Anyway I'm teaching that topic today and suddenly wondered if it's a genre people here are familiar with. I suppose people are always writing columns in the Guardian and so forth that draw on their personal experience, but would that be callled a "personal essay" here?
TIA.