List of Essays

Losing the War- Lee Sandlin

A Rough trade, Oktoberfest- Martin Amis

DFW- most everything pre 2002

Whatever Happened to Greg LeMonde- Mike Magnuson- Bicycling

Franzen- Coach, Farther Away, Caught, On Autobiographical Fiction

Woven -Lidia Yucknavitch- Guernica

Sliver of Sky- Barry Lopez

Torch Song, – Charles Bowden

Whaling Out West- Charles D’Ambrosio

The Pain Tours, The Immortal Horizon- Leslie Jamison

Meditation in E Minor- HL Mencken

Thursday Evening (Chapter 1 of Armies of the Night) Norman Mailer

Chapter 1- Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

The Moon Under Water, Shooting an elephant- George Orwell

The Militia in Me- Denis Johnson

The Child Monarch- Hendrik Hertzberg

I’m Comic Sans Asshole- Mike Lacher  McSweeny’s

How to Write the Great American Novel- Jim Behrle   the Awl

The Fat Lady Sings- Natalie Kusz

The Only Solution to the Soul is the Senses: a meditation on Bill Murray and Myself – David Shields

Burl’s- Bernard Cooper

Detatchment & Passion Phillip Lopate

Werner- Joanne Beard

  On Not Having Kids– Sanjiv Bhattacharaya

The Theory And Practice of Not Giving A Shit- Tom Bissel

The OA- Colin McAdam

Marc Maron’s Brilliant Mistakes- James Parker The Atlantic

Levels of Life- Julian Barnes (section 3)