Unit 1 Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body 1
Unit 2 Intoxicated by My Illness 14
Unit 3 Feeling Entitled? 24
Unit 4 Vision of the Pacific 33
Unit 5 Graven Images 47
Unit 6 Dressed to Thrill 58
Unit 7 The Test of Time 72
Unit 8 Inspired Immaturity 88
Unit 9 I'm Having Trouble with My Relationship 99
Unit 10 Writers Afoot 109
Unit 11 The Follies of Writer Worship 124
Unit 12 Beauty 138
Unit 13 On Silence 154
Unit 14 The Synthetic Sublime 169
Unit 15 A Week in the Word 182
Unit 16 The Paradoxes of Creativity 198
Key to the Exercises 212