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Moby Dick

Moby Dick Ch. 36
Moby Dick Ch. 41

English 11 Review

English 11 Review

On Voice: Annie Dillard and David Sedaris

Write Till You Drop
By Annie Dillard

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Strange seizures beset us. Frank Conroy loves his yo-yo tricks, Emily Dickinson her slant of light; Richard Selzer loves the glistening peritoneum, Faulkner the muddy bottom of a little girl's drawers visible when she's up a pear tree. ''Each student of the ferns,'' I once read, ''will have his own list of plants that for some reason or another stir his emotions.''

David Sedaris Interview

Slave Narrative Life Histories

Slave Narrative Life Histories
From the U.S. Library of Congress
American Slave Narratives
HBO Slave Narrative Documentary: Unchained Memories

In the 1930s and early 1940s, Alan Lomax and his father, folklorist John A. Lomax, helped to develop the Library of Congress’ Archive of American Folk Song as a major national resource, recording thousands of songs and oral histories in their original settings. Alan presented Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Josh White, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, and many others to national audiences on radio, and in concerts, records, and books, promoting their careers and contributing to the folk song movement of the period.