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Six classical Chinese poems depicting people, places, and things.
Annotated edition, Eileen Chang 张爱玲, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Writing about places, Chinese, WOC190
Annotated edition, Eileen Chang 张爱玲, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Writing about places, Chinese, WOC190
Eileen Chang on the pleasures of apartment living. A lesser-known personal essay by the famous author, set during wartime Shanghai.
Joseph Mitchell’s famous 1942 profile of Joe Gould, the Greenwich Village eccentric who claimed to be writing a voluminous “Oral History of Our Time.”
Annotated edition, Susan Orlean, Creative Nonfiction, Character profiles, Literary journalism, WOC190
Annotated edition, Susan Orlean, Creative Nonfiction, Character profiles, Literary journalism, WOC190
Susan Orleans profiles a group of free-living teenage surfer girls in Hawaii.