From: Specimen days (1863/1882) / Walt Whitman
From: The Maine woods (1864) / Henry David Thoreau
From: Innocents abroad (1869) / Mark Twain
Maggie Darling (1894) / William T. Stead
Dead after Purim (1898) / Abraham Cahan
The ordination of Asoka (1903) / Sara Jeannette Duncan
The devil baby at Hull-House (1916) / Jane Addams
Yearning mountaineers' souls need reconversion nightly (1925) / H.L. Mencken
I was marching (1934) / Meridel Le Sueur
Hoodoo (1935) / Zora Neale Hurston
Artists in uniform (1953) / Mary McCarthy
From: "Down at the cross" (1962) / James Baldwin
From: The armies of the night (1968) / Norman Mailer
Whittier: first day (1970) / Garry Wills
Truth and consequences (1977) / Ellen Willis
Shochets (1987) / Michael Lesy
From: The rainy season (1989) / Amy Wilentz
Arguing with the Pope (1994) / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Under the brush arbor (1995) / Dennis Covington
The sacrifice (1997) / Anne Fadiman
Heartland, Kansas (2004) / Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet
Upon this rock (2004) / John Jeremiah Sullivan
The aftermath (2006) / Matthew Teague
Untitled (2011) / Francine Prose.
