The Electric Typewriter
Selected features, articles and essays from the world's best journalists and writers.111 Essential Articles and Essays
Since early 2011, The Electric Typewriter has been collecting links to oustanding essays, journalism, and narrative non-fiction at tetw.tumblr.com. These are the 111 essays we think you really need to read. A few of the authors on the list have written other pieces that we could easily have included... they are all available via our author menu.The list is by no means final. If you think there is something missing please let us know via our contact box. We promise to read and consider everything that is submitted. Enjoy...
The Female Body by Margaret Atwood
H ow to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
The Possibilian by Burkhard Bilger
Phoni ng It In by Stanley Bing
Video Games: The Addiction by Tom Bissell
How Not to Talk to Your Kids by Po Bronson
Breaking Bread with a Spread by Sandra Cate
The Omega Glory by by Michael Chabon
Halle Berry's Date with a Perfect Stranger by Tom Chiarella & Halle Berry
The Origin of Aids by Tom Curtis
Music is My Bag by Meghan Daum
The Worst Mistake in History by Jared Diamond
The Women's Movement by Joan Didion
Goodbye to All That by Joan Didion
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
This is the Life by Annie Dillard
The Force That Drives the Flower by Annie Dillard
The Best of Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
Coffee and a Doughnut by Geoff Dyer
My Secret Life of crime by Geoff Dyer
A Thin Line Between Mother and Daughter by Jennifer Egan
On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eigner
A Few Words About Breasts by Nora Ephron
The Coldest War by Kevin Fedarko
Tense Present by David Foster Wallace
Nothing Happened by David Foster Wallace
The Capaital T Truth by David Foster Wallace
Shipping Out by David Foster Wallace
Liking Is for Cowards by Jonathan Franzen
The Comfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen
The Blind Man Who Learned To See by Michael Finkel
I See a Little Silhouetto of a Man by Ian Frazier
Long Day's Journey by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Naked Face by Malcolm Gladwell
What Defines a Meme? by James Gleick
To Have is To Owe by David Graeber
Autobiography of a Body by Lucy Grealy
The Dark Side of Dubai by Johann Hari
The Vietnam Syndrome by Christopher Hitchens
Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet by Mark Jacobson
Israel: The Alternative by Tony Judt
Bring Back the Rails! by Tony Judt
What We've Learned, If Anything by Tony Judt
Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn
T he Autumn of the Multitaskers by Walter Kirn
Things We Think We Know by Chuck Klosterman
Real Genius by Chuck Klosterman
Th is is Emo by Chuck Klosterman
Death of an Innocent by Jon Krakauer
The Shipbreakers by William Langewiesche
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds By Michael Lewis
When Irish Eyes Are Crying By Michael Lewis
Wall Street on the Tundra by Michael Lewis
The Oil We Eat by Richard Manning
Adventures in My Bed by Bucky McMahon
A Guide to Friendship, Schmoozing, and Social Advancement by Glenn O’Brien
I Sing of Fizzy Fluid Retention by P. J. O’Rourke
The Place to Disapear by Susan Orlean
The American Male at Age Ten by Susan Orlean
Never Forget by Michael Paterniti
The Last Meal by Michael Paterniti
Up and Then Down by Nick Paumgarten
Opium Made Easy by Michael Pollan
Bystand ers to Genocide by Samantha Power
A Brief History of the Corporation by Venkat Rao
Cari ng for Your Introvert by Jonathan Rauch
Six to Eight Black Men by David Sedaris
Undeci ded Voters by David Sedaris
Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson
The Rise of the Essay by Zadie Smith
Speaking in Tongues by Zadie Smith
Feet in Smoke by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Violence of the Lambs by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Great Bubble Machine by Matt Taibbi
The Rip-Off in Iraq by Matt Taibbi
What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? by Gary Taubes
Living With Geese by Paul Theroux
Strange Rumblings in Aztlan by Hunter S. Thompson
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved by Hunter S. Thompson
Song of the Sausage Creature by Hunter S. Thompson
The Professional Voice of Law Enforcement by Raoul Duke (a.k.a. Hunter S. Thompson)
If You Knew Sushi by Nick Tosches
Conf essions of an Opium-Seeker by Nick Tosches
Fatal Distraction by Gene Weingarten
Double Vision: The Art of Trevor and Ryan Oakes by Lawrence Weschler
Inhaling the Spore by Lawrence Wechsler
Inside the Bohemian Grove by Philip Weiss
Here is New york by E.B. White
The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, the Holy Fool by Gary Wolf