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Select a Category Books    Personal Essay - Anthologies    Personal Essay    Travel Memoir/Essay    Reviews & Criticism Periodicals    Magazine/Website - General Interest    Magazine/Website - Literary    Magazine/Website - Specialty    Magazine/Website - Literary Scene    Newspaper Reference    Craft    Directories    Organizations    Journalism General Resources    Link List    Reference    Words/Usage

Books

Personal Essay - Anthologies

Art of the Personal Essay Best American Essays Best American Essays of the Century Fierce Pajamas Norton Book of Personal Essays The Best American Magazine Writing The Best Newspaper Writing Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

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Personal Essay

Almond, Steve. Not That You Asked Baker, Nicholson. U & I Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son Benchley, Robert. Of All Things! Daum, Meghan. My Misspent Youth Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem Didion, Joan. The White Album Dillard, Annie. For the Time Being Dowd, Maureen. Are Men Necessary? Dubus, Andre. Meditations From a Moveable Chair Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature and Selected Essays Ephron, Nora. I Feel Bad About My Neck Epstein, Joseph. Narcissus Leaves the Pool Epstein, Joseph. Snobbery: The Ameican Version Fadiman, Anne. At Large and At Small Fadiman, Anne. Ex Libris Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up Gopnik, Adam. Through the Children's Gate Gornick, Vivian. Approaching Eye Level Hampl, Patricia. Blue Arabesque Hiaasan, Carl. Team Rodent Hoagland, Edward. The Tugman's Passage Jones, Lisa. Bulletproof Diva Kingsolver, Barbara. High Tide in Tuscon Klosterman, Chuck. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Lebowitz, Fran. Fran Lebowitz Reader Lopate, Philip. Against Joie de Vivre Montaigne, Michel de. Essays Orwell, George. Essays Ozick, Cynthia. Quarrel and Quandary Paglia, Camille. Sex, Art & American Culture Quindlen, Anna. Living Out Loud Rakoff, David. Don't Get Too Comfortable Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory Selzer, Richard. Confessions of a Knife Thoreau, Henry David. Walden Trillin, Calvin. The Tummy Trilogy Vowell, Sarah. Assasination Vacation Wallace, David Foster. Consider the Lobster White, E.B.. Essays of E.B. White Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own

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Travel Memoir/Essay

Belliveau, Jeannette. An Amateur's Guide to the Planet Gopnik, Adam. Paris to the Moon Iyer, Pico. Falling off the Map Iyer, Pico. Lady and the Monk Morris, Jan. Journeys Morris, Jan. The World of Venice Theroux, Paul. Fresh Air Fiend Twain, Mark. Following the Equator Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi Twain, Mark. Roughing It Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad

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Reviews & Criticism

Agee, James. Agee on Film Amis, Martin. The War Against Cliché Berger, John. Ways of Seeing Brecher, John and Gaiter, Dorothy J.. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine Kael, Pauline. For Keeps Kael, Pauline. Going Steady Kael, Pauline. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Marcus, Greil. Mystery Train Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae Rich, Frank. Hot Seat Wolfe, Tom. From Bauhaus to Our House Wolfe, Tom. The Painted Word

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Periodicals

Magazine/Website - General Interest

Atlantic Monthly Daily Beast Harpers National Review New Republic New Yorker Salon Slate The Nation Time Y Yahoo Magazine List

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Magazine/Website - Literary

3 am Agni American Scholar anderbo Antioch Review Bellingham Review Black Warrior Review Boulevard Brevity Chicago Review Crazyhorse Creative Nonfiction CutBank Exquisite Corpse Five Points Fourth Genre Georgia Review Granta Iowa Review Kenyon Review Literal Latte McSweeney’s Internet Memoir Missouri Review n+1 Narrative Nervous Breakdown New England Review Ninth Letter Prairie Schooner Quarterly West River Teeth Smith Magazine Story Quarterly Swink The Sun Threepenny Review Tin House Tiny Lights Witness X CLMP litmag list X Poets & Writers litmag list Zyzzyva

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Magazine/Website - Specialty

Afar Black Book Conde Nast Traveler Cosmopolitan Economist Entertainment Weekly Esquire Fortune Glamour Good Housekeeping Gourmet GQ Marie Claire Maxim Men's Health Men's Journal More Mother Jones National Geographic New York Outside Parents People Playboy Reader's Digest Real Simple Rolling Stone Runner's World Sports Illustrated Teen Vogue Texas Monthly Vanity Fair Vogue

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Magazine/Website - Literary Scene

Bloomsbury Review Book Slut Maud Newton McSweeney's Poets & Writers The Believer The Millions The Rumpus The Writer Writer's Chronicle X Links to Lit Blogs

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Newspaper

Los Angeles Times New York Times USA Today Wall Street Journal Washington Post Y Yahoo Newspaper List

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Reference

Craft

So, Is It Done? Submit Writing Creative Nonfiction Gutkind, Lee. The Art of Creative Nonfiction Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird Miller, Brenda and Paola, Suzanne. Tell It Slant Zinsser, William. On Writing Well

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Directories

CLMP Directory of Literary Magazines and Presses Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses Duotrope Editor & Publisher Yearbook Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents Literary Marketplace Writer's Market

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Organizations

American Society of Journalists and Authors Associated Writing Programs Association of Authors' Representatives Council of Literary Magazines and Presses National Press Foundation Society of Professional Journalists

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Journalism

Excellence in Journalism Newslab Poynter Pulitzer

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General Resources

Link List

Gotham Reading/Resources Lists New York Times Navigator Ref Desk University of Texas Reference Yahoo Reference

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Reference

Bartleby Encyclopedia Britannica First Chapters Google Google Earth Google Maps Lexis/Nexis Library of Congress National Geographic Atlas Poets & Writers Tools for Writers Shaw Guides US Copyright Office Wikipedia

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Words/Usage

American Heritage Dictionary Associated Press Stylebook Chicago Manual of Style Elements of Style Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus (online) Oxford English Dictionary (2 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (20 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (online) Roget's II Thesaurus (alphabetized) Roget's International Thesaurus (categorized) University of Calgary Grammar Guide

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