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poetaster.”
Rolf Potts • Vagabonding
galantine
John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
self-abnegating
Paul Murray • The Bee Sting: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
“Our great secret is Wuling Yang.”
Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
the English author V. S. Pritchett, one of the best and most versatile of nonfiction writers. Consider what he squeezes out of a visit to Istanbul:
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
He brimmed with that most conventional and embarrassing of qualities—“taste.”