Unit 1 Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body

Unit 2 Intoxicated by My Illness

Unit 3 Feeling Entitled?

Unit 4 Vision ofthe Pacific

Unit 5 Graven Images

Unit 6 Dressed to Thrill

Unit 7 The Test of Time

Unit 8 Inspked Immaturity

Unit 9 I'm Having Trouble with My Relationship

Unit 10 Writers Afoot

Unit 11 The Follies of Writer Worship

Unit 12 Beauty

Unit 13 On Silence

Unit 14 The Synthetic Sublime

Unit 15 A Week in the Word

Unit 16 The Paradoxes of Creativity

Key to the Exercises