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649 – Hanya Yanagihara – from The People in the Trees
648 – Jhumpa Lahiri – from The Namesake
647 – John Crowley – from Little – Big
646 – Simone de Beauvoir – from The Coming of Age
645 – Thomas Pynchon – from Inherent Vice
644 – Eudora Welty – from Delta Wedding
643 – Neil Gaiman – from American Gods
642 – Robert Louis Stevenson – from a letter to Edmund Gosse (Monterey – 15 November 1879)”
641 – Clive James – from Latest Readings
640 – Robert Walser (translated by Susan Bernofsky) – from “Berlin Life”
639 – Aleksander Hemon – from The Lazarus Project
638 – Jean Arp – from “Sacred Silence”
637 – Miriam Toews – from All My Puny Sorrows
636 – Djuna Barnes – from Nightwood
635 – Walter Benjamin (translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin) – from The Arcades Project
634 – Thich Nhat Hanh – from The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
633 – Hugh Laurie – from The Gun Seller
632 – Bill Bryson – from The Body: A Guide for Occupants
631 – Marisha Pessl – from Night Film: A Novel
630 – Marcel Duchamp – from Duchamp: A Biography
629 – Voltaire – from Voltaire’s Alphabet of Wit
628 – Ernest J. Gaines – from A Lesson Before Dying
627 – Oliver Wendell Holmes – from “TOWNE v. EISNER – 245 U.S. 418”
626 – Victoria Chang – “OBIT”
625 – William H. Gass – from The Tunnel
624 – Thomas Lux – “To Help the Monkey Cross the River – ”
623 – M. F. K. Fisher – from “The Gastronomical Me”
622 – Harryette Mullern – “Dim Lady”
621 – Graham Greene – from The Ministry of Fear
620 – Ciaran Carson – “Fear”
619 – Jenny Lawson – from Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
618 – Albert Camus (translated by Justin O’Brien) – from “The Myth of Sisyphus”
617 – Carson McCullers – from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
616 – Ted Chiang – from “What’s Expected of Us”
615 – Dorianne Laux – “Antilamentation”
614 – Jim Jarmusch – from Movie Maker magazine
613 – Ray Bradbury – from “The October Game”
612 – James Galvin – “A Second Time”
611 – Donna Tartt – from The Goldfinch
610 – Garth Risk Hallberg – from City on Fire
609 – Samuel Johnson – from “Preface” to A Dictionary of the English Language
608 – Ocean Vuong – from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
607 – Jessamyn West – from Hide and Seek
606 – Eudora Welty – from “Music in Spain”
605 – Edith Wharton – from The Age of Innocence
604 – Bob Thurber – “Grave Invitation”
603 – F. H. J. Newton – from a letter – October 14 – 1939″
602 – Ta-Nehisi Coates – from Between the World and Me
601 – George Carlin – from Brain Droppings
600 – Sally Gardner – from Maggot Moon
599 – Paul Bowles – from The Sheltering Sky
598 – Rita Dove – “Kentucky – 1833”
597 – Christopher Hitchens – from The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
596 – Alain Finkielkraut (translated by Judith Friedlander) – from In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
595 – John Steinbeck – from a letter to Elaine Scott – June 6 – 1949″
594 – Barbara Crooker – “Grief”
593 – David Berman – “Imagining Defeat”
592 – Toni Morrison – from Beloved
591 – Brady Udall – from The Lonely Polygamist
590 – Margaret Atwood – from The Handmaid’s Tale
589 – Richard Hugo – from “How Poets Make a Living”
588 – Wang Wei (translated by Kenneth Rexroth) – “Twilight Comes”
587 – Frank O’Hara – “Poem”
586 – Han Kang – from The Vegetarian
585 – Joseph Conrad – from “A Familiar Preface”
584 – Various – “You Get Served”
583 – Elif Batuman – from The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
582 – Hanif Abdurraqib – “Brief Notes On Staying // No One Is Making Their Best Work When They Want To Die”
581 – Josephine Lawrence – from A Tower of Steel
580 – Sigrid Undset – from Men – Women – and Places
579 – Keith Houston – from The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
578 – Siri Hustvedt – from What I Loved
577 – Nicholas Carr – from The Glass Cage
576 – Iris Murdoch – from Henry and Cato
575 – Toni Morrison – from “Nobel Lecture December 7 – 1993””
574 – Iris Murdoch – from The Sea – The Sea
573 – Isak Dinesen – from Out of Africa
572 – Karen Russell – from Swamplandia
571 – Teju Cole – from Open City
570 – John Cheever – from “Goodbye – My Brother””
569 – Joan Didion – from “On Self-Respect”
568 – Diane Ackerman – from The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats – Penguins – Crocodilians – and Whales
567 – Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett) – from The Brothers Karamazov
566 – Anne Lamott – from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
565 – John Fante – from a letter – October 13 – 1940″
564 – George Bernard Shaw – from Man and Superman
563 – Sam Lypsite – from Home Land
562 – George Eliot – from Middlemarch
561 – Yuval Noah Harari – from Sapiens
560 – Jay Parini – from Why Poetry Matters
559 – Billy Collins – “Introduction to Poetry”
558 – Les Murray – “Lyrebird”
557 – Kei Miller – “The Silent Things”
556 – Traditional – “Clothing the Dead”
555 – Jacqueline Winter Thomas – “Lines after reading Tranströmer”
554 – Lee Upton – “Undid in the Land of Undone”
553 – Gerard Manley Hopkins – “Spring and Fall”
552 – Terrance Hayes – “American Sonnet for My Once and Future Assassin”
551 – Christopher Lee Miles – “Bell Sound”
550 – William Butler Yeats – “The Second Coming”
549 – Ono no Komachi (translated by Jane Hirshfield & Izumi Shikibu) – [When my desire]
548 – David Graham – “The Dogs in Dutch Paintings”
547 – Robert Creeley – “Waiting”
546 – Frank Stanford – “Hidden Water”
545 – Stephen Burt – from “Why People Need Poetry”
544 – Traci Brimhall – “Resistance”
543 – Piet Hein – “Experts”
542 – Weldon Kees – “Robinson”
541 – Stanley Plumly – “Blue Doves”
540 – A. E. Stallings – “Dead Language Lesson”
539 – Yanyi – [We didn’t have cable.]
538 – Lorine Niedecker – [We are what the seas]
537 – Maggie Smith – “Heart”
536 – Faith Shearin – “Desire”
535 – Danez Smith – “dear suicide”
534 – Tracy K. Smith – “Unrest in Baton Rouge”
533 – Jane Hirshfield – “Moment”
532 – Linda Gregg – “The Letter”
531 – Jill Osier – “Storm of the Century”
530 – John Corey Whaley – from Noggin
529 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark – from The Ox-Bow Incident
528 – Yevgeny Zamyatin (translated by Mirra Ginsburg) – from We
527 – Dubravka Ugrešić (translated by Michael Henry Heim) – from The Ministry of Pain
526 – Adrienne Rich – from “Invisibility in Academe”
525 – Emilie Autumn – from The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
524 – Linda Gregg – “Surviving Love”
523 – Samuel Beckett – from Murphy
522 – Marilynne Robinson – from Housekeeping
521 – Ursula K. Le Guin – from “On Fantasy and Science Fiction”
520 – W. S. Merwin – “Place”
519 – Mark Twain – from Tom Sawyer – Detective
518 – Rachel Joyce – from The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
517 – James Baldwin – from “Notes of a Native Son”
516 – Kenneth Fearing – from Clark Gifford’s Body
515 – Ted Hughes – “Crow’s Song of Himself”
514 – Richard Wright – “507”
513 – Devi Laskar – from The Atlas of Reds and Blues
512 – Colson Whitehead – from Sag Harbor
511 – Joan Didion – from “Why I Write”
510 – Geraldine Brooks – from March
509 – Ryszard Kapuściński (translated by Klara Glowczewska) – from Travels with Herodotus
508 – Jack Kerouac – from On the Road
507 – Li-Tai-Po [translated by Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen from the French translations by Franz Toussaint] – “The Two Flutes”
506 – Seneca (translated by C. D. N. Costa) – from On the Shortness of Life
505 – Arundhati Roy – from The God of Small Things
504 – Annie Dillard – from “Acres and Eights”
503 – Ted Kooser – “A Happy Birthday”
502 – Shirley Jackson – from The Haunting of Hill House
501 – Amélie Nothomb (translated by Alison Anderson) – from Life Form
500 – Henry James – from “The Middle Years”
499 – Ray Bradbury – from “The Long Rain”
498 – Louis Jenkins – “Indecision”
497 – Agnes Maxwell Peters – from “September 7. 1948 letter to Dr. Fredric Wertham”
496 – Lewis Carroll – from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
495 – David Mitchell – from Cloud Atlas
494 – Kurt Vonnegut – from Slaughterhouse-Five – or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
493 – Ian McEwan – from Saturday
492 – Virginia Woolf – from A Writer’s Diary
491 – Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer) – from The Savage Detectives
490 – Tom Stoppard – from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
489 – Jeffrey Eugenides – from Middlesex
488 – Lorrie Moore – from “You’re Ugly – Too”
487 – Mary Oliver – “Black Oaks”
486 – Amy Hempel – from “Pool Night”
485 – A. R. Ammons – “Winter Scene”
484 – Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi – from Call Me Zebra
483 – Elaine Scarry – from On Beauty and Being Just
482 – Tennessee Williams – from The Glass Menagerie
481 – China Miéville – from Embassytown
480 – Jonathan Tropper – from This is Where I Leave You
479 – Salman Rushdie – from Shalimar the Clown
478 – Philip Larkin – “XXVI”
477 – Susan Orlean – from The Library Book
476 – Guy Davenport – from “The Geography of the Imagination”
475 – Madeline Miller – from Circe
474 – Michael Martone – “The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls – Oregon – on a Night in December in 1976”
473 – Nelly Sachs (translated by Ruth and Matthew Mead) – “In the Blue Distance”
472 – Eric Pankey – “The Book of An Hour”
471 – Tana French – from In the Woods
470 – Vance Randolph – from “Ozark Superstitions”
469 – Various – A selection of winners of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
468 – Meena Alexander – “Sister”
467 – Ada Limón – “The Raincoat”
466 – Jeff Tweedy – from Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)
465 – A. R. Ammons – “Mission”
464 – William Goldman – from The Princess Bride
463 – Aldous Huxley – from “Silence”
462 – Marianne Moore – liner notes for Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] spoken word album “I Am the Greatest”
461 – Linda Malnack – “The Boy Who Was Divided into Time Zones”
460 – Toni Morrison – from “No Place for Self-Pity – No Room for Fear”
459 – Agnes Repplier – from “The Chill of Enthusiasm”
458 – Alasdair MacIntyre – from “God and the Theologians”
457 – Charles Frazier – from thirteen moons
456 – G. K. Chesterton – from Tremendous Trifles
455 – Susan Bernhard – from Winter Loon: A Novel
454 – C. K. Williams – “Loss”
453 – Franz Kafka (translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins) – from “Letter to His Father”
452 – Ada Lovelace – from “letter to Dr. King – March 9 – 1834”
451 – Charles Caleb Colton – from Lacon; Or Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think
450 – Lauren Groff – from “Flower Hunters”
449 – Josephine Tey – from Brat Farrar
448 – Isaac Babel (translated by Peter Constantine) – from “Guy de Maupassant”
447 – Tony Hoagland – “Wine Dark Sea”
446 – Stefan Zweig (translated by William and Dorothy Rose) – from Balzac
445 – John Keats – “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
444 – Zadie Smith – from “Bookworm interview – November 09 – 2006”
443 – Patrick Leigh Fermor – from “Letter to Ricki Huston – 26 August 1961””
442 – Douglas Coupland – from “Gettysburg”
441 – Samuel Beckett – from Waiting for Godot
440 – Tim Wu – from “In Praise of Mediocrity”
439 – Orhan Pamuk (translated by Maureen Freely) – from Snow
438 – Marcia Aldrich – “A Short Book on Grief”
437 – William H. Seward & Edward de Stoeckl – from Treaty With Russia (Alaska Purchase)
436 – L. Susan Stebbing – from Ideals and Illusions
435 – W. H. Auden – from “Prologue” to The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays
434 – Mary (White) Rowlandson – from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
433 – Elizabeth Kolbert – from “How to Write About a Vanishing World”
432 – Patrick Süskind (translated by John E. Woods) – from Perfume
431 – Jane Hirshfield – “I Sat in the Sun”
430 – Arthur Schopenhauer – from “On Reading and Books” (translated by Sara Hay Dircks)”
429 – Antonio Damasio – from Descartes’ Error: Emotion – Reason – and the Human Brain
428 – Charles Wright – “Future Tense”
427 – Orhan Pamuk (translated by Maureen Freely) – from The Museum of Innocence
426 – Deborah Eisenberg – from “Recalculating”
425 – Annie Dillard – from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
424 – Marilynne Robinson – from Gilead
423 – William Gibson – from “Dead Man Sings”
422 – John Steinbeck – from The Grapes of Wrath
421 – Hunter S. Thompson – from The Rum Diary
420 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (translated by Katherine Woods) – from The Little Prince
419 – Karl Ove Knausgård (translated by Don Bartlett) – from Some Rain Must Fall – My Struggle: Book 5
418 – Beryl Markham – from West with the Night
417 – Ben Greenman – from “A Field Guide to the North American Bigfoot”
416 – Carl Sagan – from Cosmos
415 – Will Self – from “Introduction” (to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)”
414 – “Michael Schur – Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan” – heard in The Good Place (s1e06)
413 – David Shumate – “The Next Village”
412 – Don DeLillo – from White Noise
411 – Benjamin Hoff – from The Tao of Pooh
410 – Annie Dillard – from The Writing Life
409 – Mario Vargas Llosa – from “Is Fiction the Art of Living?”
408 – Ross MacDonald – from The Chill
407 – F. Scott Fitzgerald – from The Crack-Up
406 – Richard Kehl – A story about Picasso
405 – Samantha King – “Metal Band or Collective Noun?”
404 – Nathaniel Hawthorne – from The Scarlet Letter
403 – V. S. Pritchett – from “Chekhov – a doctor”
402 – Graham Greene – from Heart of the Matter
401 – David Foster Wallace – from May 21 – 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address”
400 – Eugene Lim – “The Parable of Our Giant”
399 – Cyril Connolly – from The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
398 – Tom Stoppard – from Arcadia
397 – Eduardo Galeano (translated by Mark Fried) – from The Great Floating City
396 – Fernando Pessoa (translated by Margaret Jull Costa) – from The Book of Disquiet
395 – Susan Sontag – from Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
394 – Hanshan (translated by Red Pine) – “128”
393 – Elif Batuman – from The Idiot
392 – Kurt Vonnegut – from Slaughterhouse-Five – or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
391 – Stephen Fry – from Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece
390 – Stephen Fry – from Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece
389 – Lucia Berlin – from “Wait a Minute”
388 – Gideon Wurdz / Wallace Goldsmith – from The Foolish Dictionary
387 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (translator unknown) – from “The Pleasures of Retired Life”
386 – Barbara Kingsolver – from “High Tide in Tucson”
385 – Gregory Orr – “To Be Alive”
384 – Christie Watson – from The Language of Kindness
383 – Nancy Kress – from “In Memoriam”
382 – Ursula K. Le Guin – from Lathe of Heaven
381 – Mary Beard – from Women & Power: A Manifesto
380 – Maryanne Wolf – from Reader – Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
379 – Tom Clark – “On Venus”
378 – Franz Kafka – from “October 25 – 1917”
377 – Vincent van Gogh (translated by Johanna van Gogh-Bonger) – from a letter to Theo van Gogh
376 – William Corbett – “In Passing”
375 – Alexander Hamilton – from a letter to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens
374 – Dorothy Parker – “Philosophy”
373 – V. S. Naipaul – from A Bend in the River
372 – A. R. Ammons – “Small Song”
371 – Jonathan Safran Foer – from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
370 – Adrienne Rich – from her 1997 letter declining the National Medal of Arts
369 – Seneca – from “Letter to Lucilius Junior”
368 – Sherwood Smith – from Crown Duel
367 – Doris Lessing – from The Golden Notebook
366 – William Styron – from Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
365 – T. S. Eliot – from “The Waste Land”
364 – Scott Russell Sanders – from “Garden”
363 – Terry Pratchett – from The Fifth Elephant
362 – John Bayley – from Elegy for Iris
361 – Brian Sneeden – “Bryshen and the Burning House”
360 – Kathleen Finneran – from The Tender Land
359 – Barry Lopez – from Arctic Dreams
358 – Ernest Hemingway – from A Moveable Feast
357 – D. A. Powell – “Talk to Strangers”
356 – Kathryn Scanlan – from “The First Whiffs of Spring”
355 – T. H. White – from The Once and Future King
354 – Ayya Khema – “cited in “How to Mindfully Work with Positive Emotions”
353 – Felipe Alfau – from “A Character”
352 – Lorna Crozier – “Onions”
351 – Witold Gombrowicz – from “1959”
350 – Jessamyn West – from A Matter of Time
349 – Evelyn Waugh – from Vile Bodies
348 – Anthony Trollope – from a letter to Kate Field
347 – John Henry Newman – from Essays: Critical and Historical
346 – C. S. Lewis – from God in the Dock: Essays in Theology and Ethics
345 – Eudora Welty – from “Clytie”
344 – Patricia Hampl – from The Art of the Wasted Day
343 – Harlan Ellison – from “A Love Song to Jerry Falwell”
342 – Carl Phillips – from “As from a Quiver of Arrows”
341 – Elizabeth GIlbert – from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
340 – Ray Bradbury – from Fahrenheit 451
339 – Allen Kurzweil – from A Case of Curiosities
338 – Mark Doty – from Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir
337 – John McPhee – from Coming Into the Country
336 – Jules Renard (translated by Douglas Parmée) – “Bats”
335 – Ralph Ellison – from Juneteenth
334 – Kevin Young – “Death – Mother and Child”
333 – James Joyce – from “A Painful Case”
332 – Jaron Lanier – from Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media
331 – Ian McEwan – from Saturday
330 – Keri Hulme – from Bone People
329 – Marcel Proust (translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin) – from In Search of Lost Time: Vol. 5 – The Captive
328 – Thomas Szasz – from The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary
327 – Ada Palmer – from Too Like the Lightning
326 – Svetlana Alexievich (translated by Keith Gessen) – from “Children’s Chorus”
325 – George Bernard Shaw – from Saint Joan
324 – Arthur Sze – “The Owl”
323 – Walker Percy – from The Moviegoer
322 – Lynne Murphy – from The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
321 – Tom Wolfe – from The Right Stuff
320 – Walt Whitman – from Leaves of Grass
319 – Philip Roth – from The Art of Fiction No. 84
318 – Raymond Carver – “Drinking While Driving”
317 – Lawrence Durrell – “May 22 – 1937 – Corfu”
316 – Mary Ruefle – “Short Lecture in the Form of a Course Description”
315 – Haruki Murakami – from Kafka On the Shore
314 – Robert M. Sapolsky – from Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
313 – Iris Origo – “18 May 1943”
312 – Kenneth Koch – “You Want a Social Life – with Friends”
311 – Joe Berkowitz – from Away with Words
310 – Svetlana Alexievich (translated by Keith Gessen) – from “Children’s Chorus”
309 – H. P. Lovecraft – from “The Call of Cthulhu”
308 – Virginia Woolf – from To the Lighthouse
307 – Diane Arbus – from Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
306 – Susan Laier – “Kathy Janco Sitting on a Pencil”
305 – Conor Oberst – from ” A Little Uncanny”
304 – Michael Connelly – from The Black Ice
303 – Brayden (age 5) – “Bullets”
302 – Steven Pinker – from Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason – Science – Humanism – and Progress
301 – William Shakespeare – from The Merchant of Venice
300 – Martial (translated by Susan McLean) – from Selected Epigrams
299 – Sister Wendy Beckett – from The Story of Painting
298 – C.G. Jung (translated by W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes) – from Modern Man in Search of a Soul
297 – Ben Logan – from The Land Remembers
296 – Vladimir Nabokov – from Speak Memory
295 – Halvard Johnson – “Before You Know It – And Then After”
294 – Eric Pankey – “Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale”
293 – Helen Dunmore – “Litany”
292 – Frank Stanford – “Eloping Boy”
291 – Maggie Smith – “Heart”
290 – James Tate – “Teaching the Ape to Write Poems”
289 – E. E. Cummings – “maggie and milly and molly and may”
288 – Stephen Burt – from “Why People Need Poetry”
287 – Joseph Stroud – “Against Surrealism”
286 – Robert Frost – “Fire and Ice”
285 – Brad Leithauser – from “Why We Should Memorize”
284 – Lucille Clifton – “The Garden of Delight”
283 – Ben Lerner – from The Hatred of Poetry
282 – Jane Kenyon – “Coats”
281 – Carl Sandburg – from “Tentative (First Model): Definitions of Poetry”
280 – Caitlyn Doyle – “Carnival”
279 – John Berryman – “Dream Song 14”
278 – Bruce Bond – “Ringtone”
277 – Jim Holt – from “Got Poetry?”
276 – Gerard Manley Hopkins – “Spring and Fall”
275 – Dorianne Laux – “Antilamentation”
274 – Jill McDonough – “War Alphabet”
273 – A.E. Housman & Carol Efrati – from The Road of Danger – Guilt – and Shame: The Lonely Way of A.E. Housman
272 – Marianne Moore – from “Marianne Moore – The Art of Poetry No. 4””
271 – Ilya Kaminsky – “Question”
270 – Stephen Fry – from Moab is My Washpot
269 – Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Cohn) – from “Letter VIII – Borgeby-gård – Flãdie – Sweden – 12 August 1904””
268 – Thomas Pynchon – from The Crying of Lot 49
267 – Clive James – from “Snoop and Amy”
266 – Lia Purpura – from “Scream (or Never Minding)”
265 – Lia Purpura – from “Scream (or Never Minding)”
264 – Kevin Mulligan – “It is Usually Very – Very Safe”
263 – Jenn Shapland – from “Finders Keepers”
262 – Krys Malcolm Belc – from “When a 17-Year-Old Checkout Clerk in Small Town Michigan Hits on Me – I Think about the Girl I Loved at 17””
261 – Joan Didion – from “Self-respect: Its Source – Its Power”
260 – Philip K. Dick – from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
259 – Gretel Ehrlich – from “The Solace of Open Spaces”
258 – Fernando Pessoa (translated by Richard Zenith) – from The Book of Disquiet
257 – Wang Wei – “Bird-Cry Cree”
256 – Jennifer Egan – from A Visit from the Goon Squad
255 – Mark Kurlansky – from Paper: Paging Through History
254 – George Choundas – “Things That – If Pressed – I’ll Say I Hate – For Tenable But Wholly Contrived Reasons – Because While I Recognize Plenty To Commend Them The Idea Of Being The Seven Point Two Billionth Person Who Just Adores Them Works In Me An Overmastering Nausea”
253 – Joseph Saverese – from “Passive Plants”
252 – Joseph Addison – from “No. 61. False Wit; Punning; renounced by modern writers; how to distinguish a witty saying from a pun”
251 – Stefan Zweig – from Beware of Pity
250 – Jack Handey – from Deeper Thoughts: All New – All Crispy
249 – Jesmyn Ward – from Men We Reaped
248 – John Williams – from Stoner
247 – Yiyun Li – from “Either/Or: Notes from a Difficult Year”
246 – Roger Reeves – “Tortoise Moves Toward the Sea”
245 – Arundhati Roy – from The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
244 – E. M. Cioran – from The Trouble With Being Born
243 – Anonymous – A Zen Story
242 – Miguel de Cervantes – from Don Quixote
241 – Don DeLillo – from Underworld
240 – Howard Gardner – from a letter to the TLS
239 – Victor Hugo – from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
238 – Yannis Ritsos – “3:97”
237 – Thomas Pynchon – From V.
236 – Howard Nemerov – “A Life”
235 – Chris Adrian – from The Children’s Hospital
234 – David Foster Wallace – from Infinite Jest
233 – Joseph Joubert – from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
232 – F. Scott Fitzgerald – from This Side of Paradise
231 – Harryette Mullen – “Wipe That Simile Off Your Aphasia”
230 – Jennifer Michael Hecht – from Doubt: A History
229 – Richard Brautigan – from Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
228 – Andrés Neuman – from How to Travel Without Really Seeing
227 – J. Kates – from a letter to the TLS
226 – Friedrich Nietsche – from The Will to Power
225 – Jim Moore – “There Goes That Little Mutt from Down the Street”
224 – Zelda Fitzgerald – from a letter to Dr. Oscar Forel
223 – Lynne Sharon Schwartz – from Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books
222 – Virginia Smith Rice – “January Math”
221 – Wilkie Collins – from The Woman in White
220 – Daniel Lawless – from Books and Correspondences A Short History of Decay – E M. Cioran”
219 – Jsemyn Ward – from Sing – Unburied – Sing
218 – Matsuo Bashô – “Even in Kyôto”
217 – Heraclitus – from Fragments
216 – Jack Gilbert – “What Song Should We Sing”
215 – Chuck Palahniuk – from Choke
214 – Dick Allen – “Cloud No Bigger Than a Man’s Hand”
213 – David Dunning – from “Chapter Five – The Dunning-Kruger Effect”
212 – Stefan Zweig – from Chess Story
211 – Robert Wright – from The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are
210 – Ambrose Bierce – from The Devil’s Dictionary
209 – Terry Pratchett – from The Last Continent
208 – Mark Helprin – from Winter’s Tale
207 – Jill Osier – “The Snow (Stands to My Waist) – (Like) Me (Falls Still)”
206 – William H. Gass – from “The Artist and Society”
205 – Angela Carter – from The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
204 – Federico García Lorca & Jack Spicer – “Ballad of the Terrible Presence”
203 – Federico García Lorca & W. S. Merwin – “Gacela of the Terrible Presence”
202 – T. S. Eliot – from “East Coker”
201 – N. K. Jemisin – from The Fifth Season
200 – Sarah Waters – from Tipping the Velvet
199 – Jonathan Safran Foer – from Everything is Illuminated
198 – Thomas Mann – from Buddenbrooks
197 – Clarice Lispector – from “The Author’s Dedication (alias Clarice Lispector)”
196 – Robertson Davies – from “Too Much – Too Fast”
195 – Jean Cocteau – from “Première Visite au Potomak”
194 – Iain M. Banks – from The Algebraist
193 – Karl Kraus – from Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths
192 – Montesquieu – from “Letter 150”
191 – Arthur Schopenhauer – from “A Few Parables”
190 – Anne Fadiman – from “Foreword: On Rereading”
189 – Dawn Sueoka – “Journey to the Moon”
188 – Kathy Fish – “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild”
187 – Vikram Chandra – from “Digital Publishing is Scrambling the Industry’s Rules”
186 – Heinrich Heine – from Almansor
185 – Barbara Ehrenreich – from The Worst Years of Our Lives
184 – Cesare Pavese – from The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950
183 – William Faulkner – from “All the Dead Pilots”
182 – Pierre Reverdy – “Anguish”
181 – Dawn Powell – from The Diaries: 1931-1965
180 – Jonathan Ames – “‘Six Word Memoir”
179 – Zbigniew Herbert – “Period”
178 – Gillian Flynn – from Gone Girl
177 – Craig Hase – “Fable”
176 – Alan Jacobs – from How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
175 – Dawn Powell – from The Diaries: 1931-1965
174 – Carl Phillips – “A Little Closer Though – If You Can – for What Got Lost Here”
173 – G. K. Chesterton – from Orthodoxy
172 – Riva Lehrer – from “Where All Bodies Are Exquisite”
171 – Anton Chekhov – from “The Lady With the Little Dog”
170 – Lorrie Moore – from Anagrams
169 – “Ian Skurnik – et al” – from “How Warnings About False Claims Become Recommendations”
168 – Richard Wilbur – “Epistemology”
167 – Sofie Hagen – from the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
166 – John Mole – “Some Dreams”
165 – Steven Heller – from Graphic Design Rants and Raves
164 – Victor Hugo – from Les Misérables
163 – José Saramago – from All the Names
162 – Nicholas Bate – from author’s blog
161 – David Foster Wallace – from Infinite Jest
160 – Diogenes Laërtius – from Greek Wit
159 – Alice Munro – from “Chance”
158 – Paul Auster – from The New York Trilogy
157 – A. A. Milne – from The House at Pooh Corner
156 – Stanisław Lem – from Solaris
155 – Zadie Smith – from “On Optimism and Despair”
154 – Sappho (translated by Anne Carson) – fragment 42
153 – Amorak Huey – “4-F”
152 – Halvard Johnson – “What Your Doctor Knows”
151 – Arati Kumar-Rao – from “Forty Names of Clouds”
150 – Ikkyu – “[Every day – priests minutely examine the Law]”
149 – Roald Dahl – from The BFG
148 – G. K. Chesterton – from The Illustrated London News: 1908-1910
147 – Leonard Woolf – from Downhill All the Way
146 – Jack Gilbert – “Poetry is a Kind of Lying”
145 – Unknown – [Flowers leave some of their fragrance]
144 – John Knowles – from A Separate Peace
143 – Keith Waldrop – “The Harpies”
142 – Keith Waldrop – “Proposition II”
141 – David Foster Wallace – from Infinite Jest
140 – G. K. Chesterton – from The Illustrated London News: 1908-1910
139 – Ross Gay – “Bull Dragged from Arena”
138 – Sherman Alexie – from “A Drug Called Tradition”
137 – Leonard Wolf – from Bluebeard: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais
136 – Milan Kundera (translated by Linda Asher) – from Slowness
135 – William H. Gass – from On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
134 – Rosemary Hill – from “Explorations of a Third Space”
133 – Paul Ford – from “10 Timeframes”
132 – Paul Celan – “O Little Root of a Dream”
131 – Friedrich Nietzsche – from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
130 – Lewis Carroll – from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
129 – Cesare Pavese – found in The Comfort of Strangers (Ian McEwan)
128 – Roberto Bolaño (Translated by Chris Andrews) – from “Literature + Illness = Illness”
127 – Julian Barnes – from Flaubert’s Parrot
126 – Vincent Van Gogh – from a letter to Theo Van Gogh (August – 1879)”
125 – Mark Forsyth – from The Elements of Eloquence
124 – Margaret Atwood – from Cat’s Eye
123 – Eudora Welty – from On Writing
122 – Laton Carter – “Natural Disasters”
121 – Lisa Feldman Barrett – from “Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite”
120 – Gabriel García Márquez – from_Memories of My Melancholy Whores_
119 – Søren Kierkegaard (translated by Alastair Hannay) – from Either/Or
118 – Gary Lutz – “Yours”
117 – Oscar Wilde – from The Picture of Dorian Gray
116 – James Baldwin – from “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind”
115 – James Baldwin – from “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind”
114 – Sloane Crosley – from “One Night Bounce”
113 – Virginia Woolf – from A Moment’s Liberty – the Shorter Diary
112 – Cynthia Ozick – from “Rosa”
111 – Cynthia Ozick – from “Rosa”
110 – John Jeremiah Sullivan – from “Getting Down to What is Really Real”
109 – Philip Lopate – from “Against Joie De Vivre”
108 – Lia Purpura – “Decline”
107 – William H. Gass – from The World Within the Word
106 – Gary Lutz – from “Their Sizes Run Differently”
105 – Marjorie Saiser – “Ah – Charles – If You Could Have”
104 – George Saunders – from Lincoln in the Bardo
103 – Martha Cooley – from The Archivist
102 – Charles Simic – “In the Library”
101 – James Gleick – from The Information
100 – Jorge Luis Borges (translated by Borges and Norman Thomas DiGiovanni) – from “The Library of Babel”
99 – William Logan – “The Wall”
98 – Deb Olin Unferth – “Fear of Trees”
97 – W. H. Auden – from “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
96 – Raymond Carver – from “The Art of Fiction No. 76”
95 – Joseph Campbell – from The Power of Myth
94 – Niccolò Machiavelli (translated by George Bull) – from The Prince
93 – Cormac McCarthy – from The Road
92 – Greg Jackson – from Prodigals
91 – Samuel Menashe – “The Oracle”
90 – Max Ritvo – “Cachexia”
89 – Colson Whitehead – from The Intuitionist
88 – Haruki Murakami – from Kafka on the Shore
87 – Paul Valery (translated by David Paul) – from Collected Works (Vol. 1)
86 – Robert Hayden – “Those Winter Sundays”
85 – Stefan Zweig (translated by Will Stone) – from Messages from a Lost World
84 – Jim Harrison – from The Big Seven
83 – Friedrich Nietzsche – from The Birth of Tragedy
82 – William Matthews – “The Calculus”
81 – R. A. Villanueva – “Sonnet 146”
80 – Lorna Crozier – “What Comes After”
79 – Tom Montag – “January 7 – 2001”
78 – Frederick Seidel – “The Pierre Hotel – New York – 1946”
77 – Marie Howe – “The Gate”
76 – A. R. Ammons – “Help”
75 – Wisława Szymborska – “Example”
74 – Roger Reeves – “Apollo – Neruda – and Not Yet”
73 – Mary Rose O’Reilly – “Memory”
72 – Howard Nemerov – “To David – About His Education”
71 – Zhu Zhu (translated by Dong Li) – “The Beach”
70 – Philip Schultz – “The Girlie Show”
69 – Kenneth Rexroth – “The War is Permanent”
68 – Lew Welch – [I saw myself]
67 – Will Sheff – John Allyn Smith Sails
66 – Ō no Yasumaro (translated by Michael Burch) – “[Hush – cawing birds; what rackets you make]”
65 – Melissa Kwasny – “Visiting Hours”
64 – Jennifer Knox – “Immutable”
63 – H. D. – “The Pool”
62 – Joseph Stroud – “In the Body of the Dragon”
61 – Jack Gilbert – “Islands and Figs”
60 – Traci Brimhall – “Parable of the Cannibals”
59 – Robert Frost – Devotion
58 – Monk Ryōkan (translated by Steven D. Carter) – “Written after thieves had broken into his hut”
57 – Amanda Lamarche – “Fear of Doorknobs”
56 – Søren Kierkegaard – from Either/Or: A Fragment of a Life
55 – Tom Pickard – “nectarine”
54 – Yvonne Ranier – “1977”
53 – Bill Bryson – from Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
52 – Adam O’Fallon Price – “Objects of Desire”
51 – Frank Stanford – “When We Are Young the Moon Is like a Pond We All Drown In”
50 – Yoshida Kenkō – from Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
49 – Derek Walcott – “Love After Love”
48 – James Joyce – from “The Dead”
47 – Hank Bardowitz & Chuck Berry – from Turning Points in Rock and Roll
46 – Derek Walcott – “The Fishermen Rowing Homeward”
45 – John Crowley – from “Snow”
44 – Gaspar Orozco – “Film seen through a keyhole”
43 – Lisa Marie Basile – “Apocryphal”
42 – Gregory Pardlo – “The Wedding Planners”
41 – Theodore Enslin – “Degrees”
40 – Dylan Thomas – from “Under Milk Wood”
39 – Edgar Allan Poe – from “The Philosophy of Furniture”
38 – Edward Bartok Barrata – “Will of God”
37 – Denis Johnson – from “Car Crash While Hitchhiking”
36 – Jack Gilbert – “A Stubborn Ode”
35 – Benjamin Friedman – from a letter to the editor – 2/17/2017″
34 – Nicholas & Alexander Humez – from On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World
33 – Ann Hudson – “March”
32 – Lia Purpura – from “On Invisibility”
31 – Max Jacobs – “Hell is Graduated”
30 – Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney – from Moonlight
29 – Christopher Hitchens – from Letters to a Young Contrarian
28 – Karl Zuelke – from “Fire Artist”
27 – Derrick Austin – “Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor in the set of Suddenly – Last Summer
26 – Carlo Rovelli – from Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
25 – Maureen Seaton – “This Kind of Life Keeps Breaking”
24 – Meghan Daum – from The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
23 – Vladimir Nabokov – from Lolita
22 – Douglass Guy – “Coracobrachialis”
21 – John Keats – from a letter – February 14 – 1819″
20 – Gezim Hajdari – “[we clutch at our names]”
19 – Will Storr – from The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
18 – Mason Currey – on Kierkegaard’s working habits
17 – Kyle Freeman & Jennifer Michael Hecht – on the language of suicide
16 – Thomas Lux – “Little Tooth”
15 – David Byrne – from Bicycle Diaries
14 – David Bowie – “I Can’t Give Everything Away”
13 – Kim Cooper – from 33-1/3: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
12 – Diane Ackerman – from Deep Play
11 – Stuart Dybek – “Ransom”
10 – Harry Mathews – from 20 Lines a Day
9 – Gary Lark – “Ordinary Gravity”
8 – Joseph Joubert – from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
7 – Patton Oswalt – from Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
6 – Maria Popova – from On Being interview
5 – Carl Jung – from letter to his wife – 1909″
4 – Anne Carson – “SLEEPCHAINS”
3 – Marianne Moore – List of proposed car names
2 – R.A. Villanueva – “Sonnet 146”
1 – Larry Levis – “Schoolhouse”

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