tetw a demandé: Tetw - a Tumblr dedicated to classic journalism and narrative non-fiction - would like to know: What are your favourite articles, features or essays?
I can’t apologize enough for getting back to you so late. If you are in fact still interested in my answering your question, I’ll list a few of the many literary items I hold dear:
— I’m sure it’s been cited by the majority of those whom you’ve asked, but I cannot refrain from lauding “Authority and American Usage”, from DFW’s Consider the Lobster.
— I’ve also found to be absolutely indispensable “Garner’s Modern American Usage”, the usage guide that serves as the focal point in DFW’s aforementioned essay. Garner exhibits, through the entire book, an uncanny ability to provide useful and concise information while managing to come across as being neither overly prescriptive nor merely dry and descriptive.
— I also feel I’d be remiss not to propose to you the work of William S. Burroughs as probably the most thorough and surprisingly detached firsthand exploration and description of the sordid but fascinating world in which opiate and other drug addicts lived during the forties and fifties. (And did you know that Steely Dan named their group after the name of a dildo in Naked Lunch!?)
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