Machado de Assis, excerpts from Epitaph of a Small Winner, translated by William L. Grossman. Copyright © 1952 by William Grossman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.
Rebecca Brown, excerpts from The Gifts of the Body. Copyright © 1994 by Rebecca Brown. Reprinted by permission of the author and her agents Harold Schmidt Literary Agency and HarperCollins Publishers.
John Ciardi, excerpts from “East Sixty-Seventh Street” and “A Poem for Benn’s Graduation from High School” from The Collected Poems, edited by Edward M. Cifelli. Copyright © 1974 by John Ciardi. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of the University of Arkansas Press, www.uapress.com. Excerpt from book jacket for John Ciardi, The Little That Is All. Reprinted with the permission of Rutgers University Press.
Xavier de Maistre, excerpts from A Journey Around My Room, translated by Andrew Brown. Copyright © 2013 by Andrew Brown. Reprinted with the permission of Alma Classics Ltd.
John Gunther, excerpts from Death Be Not Proud. Copyright © 1949 by John Gunther. Reprinted by permission of Jane Perry Gunther and HarperCollins Publishers.
Eugen Herrigel, excerpts from Zen in the Art of Archery, translated by R. F. C. Hull. Copyright © 1953 and renewed © 1981 by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., and renewed 1981 by Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Marie Howe, “My Dead Friends,” from What the Living Do. Copyright © 1998 by Marie Howe. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Edna Lewis, excerpts from The Taste of Country Cooking. Copyright © 1976 by Edna Lewis. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, excerpts from Gift from the Sea. Copyright © 1955, 1975 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, renewed 1983 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Copyright renewed © 2003 by Jon Lindbergh, Land M. Lindbergh, Scott Morrow Lindbergh, and Reeve Lindbergh. Introduction copyright © 2005 by Reeve Lindbergh. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Lin Yutang, excerpts from The Importance of Living. Copyright © 1937 by Lin Yutang, renewed © 1965 by Lin Tai-yi and Hsiang Ju Lan. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of Lin Yutang and HarperCollins Publishers.
Haruki Murakami, excerpts from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir, translated by Philip Gabriel. Copyright © 2008 by Haruki Murakami. Used by permission of International Creative Management, Inc., and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Azar Nafisi, excerpts from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Copyright © 2002 by Azar Nafisi. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, excerpts from The Little Prince, translated by Richard Howard. Copyright © 2012 by Richard Howard. Reprinted by permission of Egmont UK Ltd. and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
E. B. White, excerpts from Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition, originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth and revised and updated by Martha White. Copyright © 2008 by White Literary LLC. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc., and HarperCollins Publishers.