This non-fiction collection from a Denver writer represents essays written on topics as diverse as American civilization, gay profiling, digital media, racism, Byzantium and Britney Spears. These essays are neither school reports nor random scribblings and the pieces were written in the spirit of Michel de Montaigne, the founder of the essay as a literary genre. See Teen W This non-fiction collection from a Denver writer represents essays written on topics as diverse as American civilization, gay profiling, digital media, racism, Byzantium and Britney Spears. These essays are neither school reports nor random scribblings and the pieces were written in the spirit of Michel de Montaigne, the founder of the essay as a literary genre. See Teen Work (2016) for juvenile essays.