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ANDER MONSON: Heres How You Use the Lion Mints: An Introduction to How We Speak to One Another
Page 1. Hoagland, Edward. Introduction to The Best American Essays 1999. Edited by Edward Hoagland. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Page 3. Beattie, Ann. Afterword to Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson by Laura Sims. Brooklyn: PowerHouse Books, 2014.
Page 4. DAgata, John. Halls of Fame. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001.
MARCIA ALDRICH: Invisible Engineering: The Fine Art of Revising The Fine Art of Sighing
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KRISTEN RADTKE on Chris Markers Sans Soleil
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Majestic Ruins: ROBIN HEMLEY on the Work of James Agee
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Page 30. Cable, George Washington. The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life. New York, Sagamore Press, 1957.
Page 30. Evans, Walker. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941.
V. V. GANESHANANTHAN on Essays, Assays, and Yiyun Lis Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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ROBERT ATWAN: The Assault on Prose: John Crowe Ransom, New Criticism, and the Status of the Essay
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Page 42. Ransom, John Crowe. Topics for Freshman Writing: Twenty Topics for Writing with Appropriate Material for Study. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1935.
Page 43. Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1938.
Page 43. Young, Thomas Daniel, and John Hindle. Introduction to Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom. Edited by Thomas Daniel Young and John Hindle. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
Page 43. Ransom, John Crowe. Criticism as Pure Speculation. In Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom. Edited by Thomas Daniel Young and John Hindle. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
Page 43. Mailer, Norman. Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnam, 1959.
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