Essays

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"The Geography of the Imagination" by Guy Davenport 1.32 out of 10	"How to Write An Autobiographical Novel" by Alexander Chee 1.30 out of 10	"Campo Santo" by W. G. Sebald 1.30 out of 10	"The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal 1.28 out of 10
"My Misspent Youth" by Meghan Daum 1.28 out of 10	"Under the Sign of Saturn" by Susan Sontag 1.28 out of 10	"Feel Free" by Zadie Smith 1.27 out of 10	"Less Than One" by Joseph Brodsky 1.27 out of 10
"The Adding Machine" by William S. Burroughs 1.27 out of 10	"Upstream" by Mary Oliver 1.27 out of 10	"Notes from No Man's Land" by Eula Biss 1.26 out of 10	"The Fire This Time" by Jesmyn Ward 1.25 out of 10
"Known and Strange Things" by Teju Cole 1.25 out of 10	"Signposts in a Strange Land" by Walker Percy 1.25 out of 10	"Essays of E. B. White" by E. B. White 1.24 out of 10	"Living Out Loud" by Anna Quindlen 1.24 out of 10
"At the Same Time" by Susan Sontag 1.24 out of 10	"The Road to San Giovanni" by Italo Calvino 1.23 out of 10	"Kick Ass" by Carl Hiaasen 1.23 out of 10	"The Death of Adam" by Marilynne Robinson 1.23 out of 10
"I Love You More Than You Know" by Jonathan Ames 1.22 out of 10	"In the American Grain" by William Carlos Williams 1.21 out of 10	"You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl" by Celia Rivenbark 1.20 out of 10	"What I'd Say to the Martians" by Jack Handey 1.20 out of 10
"Where the Stress Falls" by Susan Sontag 1.20 out of 10	"Other People's Trades" by Primo Levi 1.20 out of 10	"The Ecstasy of Influence" by Jonathan Lethem 1.19 out of 10	"My Ears Are Bent" by Joseph Mitchell 1.19 out of 10
"The Givenness of Things" by Marilynne Robinson 1.19 out of 10	"Table of Contents" by John McPhee 1.19 out of 10	"Present Concerns" by C. S. Lewis 1.19 out of 10	"Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed" by Harlan Ellison 1.18 out of 10
"Stranger Shores" by J. M. Coetzee 1.18 out of 10	"The Cross of Redemption" by James Baldwin 1.18 out of 10	"Wormholes" by John Fowles 1.17 out of 10	"Meditations from a Movable Chair" by Andre Dubus 1.17 out of 10
"Hugging the Shore" by John Updike 1.17 out of 10	"Finding a Form" by William H. Gass 1.17 out of 10	"A Place in the Country" by W. G. Sebald 1.17 out of 10	"The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You" by S. Bear Bergman 1.17 out of 10
"In Praise of Messy Lives" by Katie Roiphe 1.17 out of 10	"Inner Workings" by J. M. Coetzee 1.17 out of 10	"Otherwise Known as the Human Condition" by Geoff Dyer 1.17 out of 10	"That Mighty Sculptor, Time" by Marguerite Yourcenar 1.16 out of 10
"Prejudices" by H. L. Mencken 1.15 out of 10	"Vermeer in Bosnia" by Lawrence Weschler 1.15 out of 10	"The Writer and the World" by V. S. Naipaul 1.15 out of 10	"The Way the World Works" by Nicholson Baker 1.15 out of 10
"Impossible Owls" by Brian Phillips 1.14 out of 10	"In a Narrow Grave" by Larry McMurtry 1.14 out of 10	"The Abundance" by Annie Dillard 1.14 out of 10	"Shadow and Act" by Ralph Ellison 1.14 out of 10
"In Defence of English Cooking" by George Orwell 1.14 out of 10	"Tremendous Trifles" by G. K. Chesterton 1.14 out of 10	"The Professor and Other Writings" by Terry Castle 1.14 out of 10	"What if This Were Enough?" by Heather Havrilesky 1.13 out of 10
"Quarrel & Quandary" by Cynthia Ozick 1.13 out of 10	"The Next American Essay" by John D'Agata 1.13 out of 10	"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" by Leslie Marmon Silko 1.13 out of 10	"Forty-One False Starts" by Janet Malcolm 1.12 out of 10

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