http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest/2015/09/slate_s_culture_gabfest_discusses_the_rise_of_the_first_person_industrial.html

The first-person narrative essay has a long emotional history with the Internet. In this week’s Culture Gabfest Slate Plus bonus segment, Julia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf muse over senior editor Laura Bennett’s popular piece, “The First-Person Industrial Complex,” and share their favorite first-person narrative essays. From Joan Didion to George Orwell, the Gabsters praise essays that they’ve found particularly powerful—and highlight what they like most about the form.