- Subjects
- Published
-
New York :
W.W. Norton & Co
1997.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 477 p.
- ISBN
- 9780393036541
- The personal essay: a form of discovery / Joseph Epstein
- Italian without a master / Mark Twain
- Something defeasible / Max Beerbohm
- Joseph Conrad / Bertrand Russell
- A chance meeting / Willa Cather
- The dream / Winston Churchill
- Reflections on journalism / H.L. Mencken
- Leslie Stephen / Virginia Woolf
- A visit to a godmother / Rebecca West
- St. Augustine and the bullfight / Katherine Anne Porter
- The middle or blue period / Dorothy Parker
- A preface to Persius / Edmund Wilson
- Sleeping and waking / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- What are you doing in my dreams? / Dawn Powell
- Once more to the lake / E.B. White
- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston
- In quest of beer / Frank O'Connor
- Revisiting Greece / Cyril Connolly
- "The Moon Under Water" / George Orwell
- A good appetite / A.J. Liebling
- Chic-English, French, American / Nancy Mitford
- The lost childhood / Graham Greene
- The stranger / Emily Hahn
- The angry winter / Loren Eiseley
- The flaw / M.F.K. Fisher
- The little store / Eudora Welty
- An author's mail / Barbara Tuchman
- Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas
- Living with music / Ralph Ellison
- My father / Doris Lessing
- Jury duty / William Zinsser
- Tangier / Truman Capote
- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin
- How to eat an ice-cream cone / L. Rust Hills
- The king of the birds / Flannery O'Connor.
- The lesson of the master / Cynthia Ozick
- Cops and writers / Jean Hollander
- The vanishing act / Dan Jacobson
- Take the "A" train / Jeremy Bernstein
- Quintana / John Gregory Dunne
- In the middle of the journey / V.S. Naipaul
- The bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks
- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion
- I like a Gershwin tune / Joseph Epstein
- The bey / Bruce Chatwin
- Tools of torture / Phyllis Rose
- Ron her son / Nancy Mairs
- Going home again / Richard Rodriguez
- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard
- The inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders
- Grown men / Barry Lopez
- Oyez a Beaumont / Vicki Hearne
- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele
- Mother tongue / Amy Tan.
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