Intensive Reading Too Many Books Gilbert Norwood The Death of the Moth Virginia Woolf Insouciance D. H. Lawrence Polities and the English Language George Orwell Thinking as a Hobby William Golding A Cow That Could Never Get Up N'more James Herriot On the Morning after the Sixties Joan Didion On Writing i Stephen King Florence Bill Bryson Introduction to The Art of the Personal Essay Phillip Lopate Extensive Reading Rivalry E. V. Lucas Seeing People Off Max Reerhahm Education and Discipline Bertrand Russell Notes on the English Character E. M. Forster Once More to the Lake E. B. White College Pressures William Zinsser On Flying Gore Vidal What We Think of America Harold Pinter The World as India Susan Sontag A More Perfect Union Barack Obama