Options for Thought/Style/Voice/Structure (Scroll down for all the other things we read)
David Sedaris
Zadie Smith
Mark Bowden
Aatish Bhatia
"The Crayola-fication of the World"
Johnathan Rouch
Aaron Ralston
Ben Rhoades
David Dobbs
Susan Orlean
Emily Esfahani
"There's More to Life Than Being Happy"
Michael Grazanzio
Other things we read:
Francis Bacon
James Baldwin
"Notes of a Native Son"
Wendell Berry
"Waste"
John Burroughs
Bernard Cooper
Joan Didion
Annie Dillard *swoon*
Gretel Erlich
Zora Neale Hurston
"How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
Maxine Hong Kingston
George Orwell
Elanor Robertson
Richard Selzer
"The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold"
Jonathan Swift
Henry David Thoreau
EB White
Tom Wolfe
"The Right Stuff"
Vicki Woods
Virginia Woolf