Holy the Firm
by Annie Dillard | 
Teaching a Stone to Talk
by Annie Dillard | 
For the Time Being
by Annie Dillard | 
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
by Annie Dillard | 
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard | 
An American Childhood
by Annie Dillard | 
When I Was a Child I Read Books
by Marilynne Robinson | 
Interior States
by Meghan O'Gieblyn | 
A Confession
by Leo Tolstoy | 
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
by Alan Lightman | 
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
by Joan Didion | 
Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens | 
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett | 
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
by Cookie Mueller | 
How to Be Alone
by Jonathan Franzen | 
American Like Me
by America Ferrera | 
The Undertaking
by Thomas Lynch | 
Loitering
by Charles D'Ambrosio | 
Waiting for the Last Bus
by Richard Holloway | 
Intoxicated by My Illness
by Anatole Broyard |
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.