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Some essays I need to read

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  • Virginia Woolf, “Letter to a Young Poet”
  • Zadie Smith, “What Do We Really Fear About Death”
  • Francis Bacon, “Of Studies”
  • William Hazlitt, “On the Pleasure of Hating”
  • Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”
  • Alexander Smith, “A Lark’s Flight”
  • James Baldwin, “Stranger in a Village”
  • Eula Bliss, “Time and Distance Overcome”
  • Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”
  • Italo Cavino, “Why Read the Classics?”
  • Jorge Luis Borges, “Borges and I”
  • William Gass, “On Being Blue”
  • Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That”
  • Tracy K. Smith, “Ordinary Light”
  • Jo Anne Beard, “The Fourth State of Matter”
  • John Berge, “Why Look at Animals”
  • Maggie Nelson, “Bluets”
  • Roland Barthes, “Plastic”
  • Ander Monson, “Essay as Hack”
  • Kurt Vonnegut, “Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty”
  • Teju Cole, “Unnamed Lake”
  • Alexander Chee, “The Rosary”
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crackup”
  • Susan Sontag, “Notes on Camp”
  • Tom Wolfe, “The Painted world”
  • Jo Freeman, “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”
  • William Deresiewicz, “In Defense of Facts”