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Let me add, with one proviso, another option to Glen Johnson's list (an
enticing one that I need to take with me to my local bookstore): the
familiar essays of Samuel Pickering, available in 1/2 dozen volumes or more
by now. Pickering is intensely observant and reflective, witty and
irreverent and iconoclastic, unpretentious and self-mocking, and a careful
craftsman.
The proviso: I frequently use the essays in my freshman composition
courses, but 18-19 year olds occasionally labor to respond to Pickering's
middle-aged male preoccupation with on a handful of topics (family, sex,
money, mortality, ambition).
Steve Jobe
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