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Essays
 Websites presented in alphabetical order gladwell.com 
 Official site for Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink." Features an archive of his articles going back to 1996, on topics such as plagiarism, personality tests, shopping malls, airline safety, prescription drugs, caffeine, and even ketchup. http://www.gladwell.com Topics: Drugs & Medications by Type, Education, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Mar 24, 2005 The Gore Vidal Index
Unofficial website for American essayist and novelist Gore Vidal, who is known for writing historical fiction and other works. The site features a brief biography, thumbnail reviews of Vidal's books, images of book covers of translations, the transcript of a 1991 interview, and links to related material and sites. From a journalism instructor at the University of Pittsburgh. http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html Topics: Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Sep 26, 2007 Graduate School Essays
Tips on writing an application essay for graduate school--how to start, what to include, and what kind of personal information to give. A handout from The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/gradapp.html Topics: College and University Education, Communications, English Language, Language, Literature & Books, Nonfiction by Genre, Writing Last updated Apr 2, 2005 The Irascible Professor: Irreverent Commentary on the State of Education Today
Created "to provide intelligent commentary on the successes, failures, and foibles of the American education establishment ... with a modicum of wit, and without the rancor and mean-spiritedness that characterizes so much commentary today." Frequent guest commentaries and freelance submissions supplement the author's own essays. Not searchable. Published irregularly by Mark H. Shapiro, professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton. http://irascibleprofessor.com/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre Last updated May 30, 2006 Mark Twain's Latest Essay: "The Privilege of the Grave"
This article describes the December 2008 publication of a "new" Mark Twain essay, "The Privilege of the Grave," about freedom of expression. Includes an overview and excerpt from the essay and a link to Twain's "Corn-Pone Opinions," an essay "not published until several years after his death, [in which] humorist Mark Twain examines the effects of social pressures on our thoughts and beliefs." From About.com. http://grammar.about.com/b/2008/12/15/twains-latest-essay-the-privilege-of-the-grave.htm Topics: Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jan 5, 2009 Northwest by Northwest: Nonfiction
"This [briefly annotated] list features selected non-fiction titles written after 1960 by authors who live (or have lived) in Oregon, Washington [state], Idaho, Montana and Alaska (excluding the Arctic), and who write about those regions. The list is for reading rather than academic research." Includes poetry, essays, travel narratives, biographies, nature and environment, and other titles. From the Multnomah County Library, Oregon. http://www.multcolib.org/books/lists/nwauthors2.html Topics: Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Feb 27, 2006 Writers on America
"In what sense do you see yourself as an American writer?" was asked of novelists, critics, historians, and poets: Elmaz Abinader, Julia Alvarez, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Chabon, Billy Collins, Robert Creeley, David Herbert Donald, Richard Ford, Linda Hogan, Mark Jacobs, Charles Johnson, Bharati Mukherjee, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Robert Pinskey. Their responses reflect America's diversity, struggle, laughter, sorrow, and democracy. From the Office of International Information Programs of the U.S. Department of State. http://www.america.gov/publications/books/writers_america.html Topics: Communications, English Language, Literature & Books, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry, Writing Last updated Dec 21, 2008 |
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