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Friends,

While in Madison, we stopped by a feminist bookstore. What is in a feminist bookstore? Same stuff as any other indie bookstore, but with a whole heap more lesbian stuff. By the barrell full too. And while they will sell books by guys, they only sell CDs by women (including on group called Dykapella). Anyway, while there, I stumbled on a real interesting book that I bought.

It is the non-fiction equivalent of the Scribner Anthology. I didn't even know they made that. It is edited by the same people (Michael Martone and Lex Williford), but it's called the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative NonFiction Work from 1970 to the Present. They assembled this book the same way the did the Scribner Anthology, with an emphasis on making a cheap book (this thing sells for 20 bucks retail, cheaper via Amazon) and the democratic selection process of sending a survey out to over 2,000 writing professionals, then picking the highest ranked essays they could afford. Here's the results:

1. Jo Ann Beard - The Fourth State of Matter
2. Wendell Berry - Getting Along with Nature
3. Eula Biss - The Pain Scale
4. Mary Clearman Blew - The Unwanted Child
5. Charles Bowden - Torch Song
6. Janet Burroway - Embalming Mom
7. Kelly Grey Garlisle - Physical Evidence
8. Anne Carson - The Glass Essay
9. Bernard Cooper - Burl's
10. Michael W. Cox - Visitor
11. Annie Dillard - Living Like Weasels
12. Mark Doty - Return to Sender
13. Brian Doyle - Leap
14. Tony Earley - Somehow Form a Family
15. Anthony Farrington - Kissing
16. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher - The Beautiful City of Tirzah
17. Diane Glancy - Sun Dance
18. Lucy Grealy - Mirrorings
19. William Harrison - Present Tense Africa
20. Robin Hemley - Reading History to My Mother
21. Adam Hochschild - World on a Hilltop
22. Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place
23. Barbara Kingslover - Hight Tide in Tucson
24. Ted Kooser - Small Rooms in Time
25. Sara Levine - The Essayist Is Sorry For Your Loss
26. E.J. Levy - Mastering the Art of French Cooking
27. Phillip Lopate - Potrait of My Body
28. Barry Lopez - Flight
29. Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking
30. Lee Martin - Sorry
31. Rebecca McClanahan - Interstellar
32. Erin McGraw - Bad Eyes
33. John McPhee - The Search for Marvin Gardens
34. Brenda Miller - The Date
35. Dinty W. Moore - Son of Mr. Green Jeans
36. Kathleen Norris - Celibate Passion
37. Naomi Shihab Nye - This Is Not Who We Are
38. Lia Purpura - Autopsy Report
39. Richard Rhodes - Watching the Animals
40. Bill Roorbach - Shitdiggers, Mudflats, and the Worm Men of Maine
41. David Sedaris - Repeat After Me
42. Richard Selzer - Imelda
43. Sue William Silverman - The Pat Boone Fan Club
44. Floyd Skloot - A Measure of Acceptance
45. Lauren Slater - Black Swans
46. Cheryl Strayed -The Love of My Life
47. Amy Tan - Mother Tongue
48. Ryan Van Meter - If You Knew Then What I Know Now
49. David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
50. Joy Williams - Hawk

viva este book