Premise: Reviewers note that the essays, like the book, are long (97 pages about a cruise-ship voyage, 54 on the Illinois State Fair) and playful (He trounces words; he pivots on commas; he drops in and out of styles like a vaudevillian who lets the audience watch him change costumes right there on stage, says the Los Angeles Times ' Susan Salter Reynolds).

Hypothesis: His essays have been more successful than his book, although the writing style is similar.
Relation: neutral