The personal essay : a form of discovery / Joseph Epstein
Italian without a master / Mark Twain
Something defeasible / Max Beerbohm
Joseph Conrad / Bertrand Russell
A chance meeting / Willa Cather
The dream / Winston Churchill
Reflections on journalism / H.L. Mencken
Leslie Stephen / Virginia Woolf
A visit to a godmother / Rebecca West
St. Augustine and the bullfight / Katherine Anne Porter
The middle or blue periond / Dorothy Parker
A preface to Persius / Edmund Wilson
Sleeping and waking / F. Scott Fitzgerald
What are you doing in my dreams? / Dawn Powell
Once more to the lake / E.B. White
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston
In quest of beer / Frank O'Connor
Revisiting Greece / Cyril Connolly
"The moon under water" / George Orwell
A good appetite / A.J. Liebling
Chic- English, French, and American / Nancy Mitford
The lost childhood / Graham Greene
The stranger / Emily Hahn
The angry winter / Loren Eiseley
The little store / Eudora Welty.
(Cont'd) An author's mail / Barbara Tuchman
Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas
Living with music / Ralph Ellison
My father / Doris Lessing
Jury duty / William Zinsser
Stranger in the village / James Baldwin
How to eat an ice-cream cone / L. Rust Hills
The king of the birds / Flannery O'Connor
The lesson of the master / Cynthia Ozick
Cops and writers / Jean Hollander
The vanishing act / Dan Jacobson
Take the "A" train / Jeremy Bernstein
Quintana / John Gregory Dunne
In the middle of the journey / V.S. Naipaul
The bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks
On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion
I like a Gershwin tune / Joseph Epstein
Tools of torture / Phyllis Rose
Ron her son / Nancy Mairs
Going home again / Richard Rodriguez
Living like weasels / Annie Dillard
The inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders
Oyez à Beaumont / Vicki Hearne
On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele
