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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/reviews/electric-fences-intersectionality-michael-perrys-montaigne-barn-boots/"></div><p>The 16th-century French nobleman Michel de Montaigne, widely considered the father of the essay, spent the second half of his life writing personal essays, and pioneered writing about such personal things as our bowel movements, our sex lives, and anything else that wandered into his private vineyard or snuck into his castle. Michael Perry’s new essay collection, <em>Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles through Philosophy, </em>brings the essayist to life once more. Perry’s poignant, balanced, achingly funny prose is more than an ode to or critique of Michel De Montaigne. Instead, Perry uses the original essays to better understand his own life and bring a bit more humanity to an increasingly divisive world. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/reviews/electric-fences-intersectionality-michael-perrys-montaigne-barn-boots/#more-5911" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Electric Fences and Intersectionality: Michael Perry’s Montaigne in Barn Boots  

Gretchen Lida is an essayist and an equestrian, her work has appeared in <em>The Washington Post, Brevity, The Rumpus, The Washington Independent Review of Books a</em>nd many others. She teaches composition in Illinois, lives in Wisconsin, sometimes lives on Nantucket Island and is still a Colorado Native. She is working on her first collection <em>Beware the Horse Girls: Essays for the Awkward Equestrian.</em>