Essays

The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town

By Edited by Ross

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My Ears Are Bent

By Joseph Mitchell

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Billy Ray’s Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula

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My Misspent Youth: Essays

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The Best American Essays 2000

By Alan Lightman

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History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s

By Timothy Garton Ash

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Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South

By Hal Crowther

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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms

By Ron Rosenbaum

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A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile

By James Alan McPherson

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The Peter Matthiessen Reader: A Selection of Nonfiction

By McKay Jenkins

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The Time of Our Time

By Norman Mailer

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Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen

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More Matter: Essays and Criticism

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