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| Credits | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Literary Diaries And Journals | |
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| The Journals | |
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| May Sartonfrom Journal of a Solitude | |
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| Gerald Early"Digressions"M.F.K. Fisher"Paris Journal" | |
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| George Dennisonfrom Temple | |
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| Gretel Ehrlich"From the Journals" | |
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| Literary Memoir | |
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| "Snapshot of a Dog" | |
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| "Yonder Peasant, Who Is He?" from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | |
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| An American Childhood | |
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| "No Name Woman," from The Woman Warrior | |
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| "Notes on My Mother" | |
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| "Tracks and Ties" | |
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| The Kiss | |
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| From Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | |
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| "Lights of the Long Night" and "Husbands," from Broken Vessels | |
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| From Geography of the Heart | |
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| The Liar's Club | |
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| "Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy" | |
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| "Sex and Death to the Age 14" | |
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| "A Federal Offense," from In Pharaoh's Army | |
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| "The Harvey Pekar Name Story" | |
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| The Personal Essaye | |
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| "Once More to the Lake" | |
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| "Equal in Paris," from Notes of a Native Son | |
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| "On Being the Target of Discrimination" | |
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| "That Old-Time Religion," from Womenfolks | |
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| "Country Matters"Philip Lopate | |
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| "The Dead Father: A Rememberance of Donald Barthelme | |
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| "Vivian Gornick"At the University: Little Murders of the Soul" | |
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| "A Small Place" | |
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| "Body in Trouble," from Waist-High in the World | |
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| "Current Events," from Colored People | |
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| "The Undertaking" | |
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| "This is What You Need for a Happy Life" | |
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| "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp" | |
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| "What Is It We Really Harvestin' Here?" | |
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| "How to Write a Personal Essay" | |
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| Literary Journalism | |
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| "The Fire," from Hiroshima | |
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| Capotefrom In Cold Blood | |
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| "Illumination Rounds," from Dispatches | |
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| "The Turkey Shoot," from The Executioner's Song | |
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| "Last Words," from Shot in the Heart | |
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| "November 1987," from What Lisa Knew | |
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| "Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" | |
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| "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch" | |
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| From Salvador | |
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| From The Right | |
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| "Summit, 1:25p.m., May 10, 1996, 29,028 Feet" | |
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| From Into Thin Air | |
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| "The Zero-Moment Point," | |
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| From The Perfect Storm | |
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| The Art Of The Particular: Creative Nonfiction Classified By Subjectnature Writing | |
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| Memoir: "Havasu," from Desert Solitaire | |
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| Personal Essay: "Spring," from A Country Year | |
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| Literary Journalism: from Annals of the Former World | |
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| Literary Travel | |
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| Memoir: "Lijiang," from Questions of Heaven | |
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| Personal Essay: "One Village" | |
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| Literary Journalism: from Mississippi Solo | |
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| The Science Essay | |
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| Memoir: from The Hidden Life of Dogs | |
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| Personal Essay: "The Medusa and the Snail" | |
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| Literary Journalism: "When Doctors Make Mistakes" | |
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| Creative Cultural Criticism | |
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| Memoir: Music Is My Bag: Confessions of a Lapsed Oboist" | |
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| Personal Essay: from The Silent Woman | |
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| Literary Journalism: "Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise | |