Category Archives: The Emu Bee

A sub-category of the New Leaf Journal’s Emu Café for interesting articles about writing focusing on aesthetics and the life lived well.

May 10, 2020

May 2020

“I’m a Little Maxed Out on Existentialism”

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Back in 2005, I overheard a gentleman waiting in line at Cobble Hill Cinema tell his date that he was “a little maxed out on existentialism.” The ineffable haughtiness of his declaration stayed with me.