Some essays I need to read
- 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”