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Essays
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Writing Home
by Alan Bennett
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Crooning
by John Gregory Dunne

Essays about American Life
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AA Gill is Away
by A. A. Gill
"My editor asked me what I
wanted from journalism and I said the first
thing that came into my head--I'd like to
interview places. To treat a place as if it
were a person, to go and listen to it, ask
it questions, observe it the way you would
interview a politician or a pop star," Gill
writes.
Readers
are treated to an
account of his
vacations to places
like famine-stricken
Sudan, the
pornography studios
of California's San
Fernando Valley, the
dying Aral Sea or
the seedy parts of
Kaliningrad.
A great read....
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Hymn to Old Age
by
Hermann Hesse
Quite striking essays and poems by Hermann Hess.
His writing is full of description, perception and charm.
He tackles the problem of old age head on, without flinching.
Must read: A Small Boy and Reunion with Nina |
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The Patch
by John McPhee
John McPhee is an fascinating writer
The Patch is a collection of observations - short stories that
inform and delight. They range from sports to
encounters with Oscar Hammerstein and Joan Baez, to a visit
to a Hershey Chocolate Factory.
He is also the author of "Draft No. 4" |
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Chester Higgins
Jr./The New York Times
by Susan Sontag

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