Introduction | |
Encountering the Essay | |
What Are Essays? | |
Essays and Articles | |
Essays and Fiction | |
Autobiography and Truth | |
The Autobiographical "I" Writing the "Standard" Essay | |
Evaluating the "Standard" Essay | |
Essays Can Be a Risky Business: The Contemporary Essay | |
A Diversity of Forms and Voices | |
The Essay and Public Events | |
The Essay's Future Prologue | |
Essayists on the Essay | |
"What Is an Essay?" | |
"Resisting Definitions" | |
"The Ideal Essay" | |
"The Essay as Object" | |
"The Essay as Action" | |
"Essays and the Real World" | |
"The Essay's Subjectivity" | |
"No Standard Essay" | |
"The Essay's Diversity" | |
"The Memorable Essay" | |
"The Author's Gumption" | |
"Essays and the Imagination" | |
"Essays Versus Articles" | |
"Essays Versus Stories" | |
"Essays Versus Poems" | |
"Why Essays Can Confuse People" | |
"Essays Are Not Scientific Documents" | |
"The Essayist's Defensiveness" | |
"On Being an Essayist" | |
"Essayists Must Tell the Truth" | |
"The Essayist's Voice" | |
"Voice and Personality" | |
"The Demands of the First Person Singular" | |
"The 'Who Cares?' Factor" | |
"What 'Confessional Writing' Must Do" | |
"How the Essayist Acquires Authority" | |
"The Conversational Style" | |
"The Essay as Dialogue" | |
"The Attractions of Autobiography" | |
"The Essayist's Audience" | |
"Essays Start Out in Magazines" | |
"The Importance of Being Edited" | |
"On Certain Magazine Interviews" | |
"Listening to People Think" | |
"On the Subjects of Essays" | |
"The Essay's Unlimited Possibilities" | |
The Personal Voice: Identity, Diversity, Self-Discovery | |
"The Telephone" | |
"Hair" | |
"Two Questions" | |
"Silent Dancing" | |
"Westbury Court" | |
"The Blue Machinery of Summer" | |
"My Friend Lodovico" | |
"Book Marks" | |
"Silk Parachute" | |
"Shame" | |
"The Inheritance of Tools" | |
"Black Swans" | |
"Mother Tongue" | |
The Attentive Mind: Observation, Reflection, Insight | |
"Turning Point" | |
"The Stunt Pilot" | |
"Joyas Voladoras" | |
"Memoria ex Machina" | |
"Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog" | |
"A Loveley Sort of Lower Purpose" | |
"The Stone Horse" | |
"Yarn" | |
"They All Just Went Away" | |
"Lifelike" | |
"Ali in Havana" | |
"The Disposable Rocket" | |
The Public Sphere | |
Advocacy, Argument, Controversy | |
"Think About It" | |
"Shouting 'Fire!'" | |
"Mail" | |
"What's Wrong with Animal Rights" | |
"On Seeing England for the First Time" | |
"Living Will" | |
"Exquisite Corpse" | |
"Citizenship in Emergency" | |
"The Singer Solution to World Poverty" | |
"Six Seconds" | |
"Dining with Robots" | |
"The Killing Game" | |
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