Writer
Hawking, Stephen. "The Future of the Universe." Jan. 1991, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK. Lecture.
Seeger, Alan. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death." Poems. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.
Franzen, Jonathan. "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1996.
Franzen, Jonathan. "Why Bother?" How to Be Alone. Picador, 2002.
Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.
Scruton, Roger. How to Be a Conservative. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014, preface.
Maugham, William Somerset. "The Treasure." The Mixture as Before. William Heinemann/Doubleday Doran, 1940.
The Metropolis and Mental Life
Simmel, Georg. "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben [The Metropolis and Mental Life]." The First German Municipal Exposition. 1903, Dresden, Germany.
Simmel, Georg. "The Metropolis and Mental Life." Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Kirk, Russell. The Conservative Mind. Henry Regnery Company, 1953, ch. 2, sect. 4.
Malamud, Bernard. "Man in the Drawer." Rembrandt's Hat. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973.
Haskins, Henry S [published anonymously]. "Metapsychics." Meditations in Wall Street. William Morrow & Company, 1940.
Updike, John. "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." New Yorker, 22 Oct. 1960.
Updike, John. Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. Library of America, 2010.
Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1952.
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. "How (and Why) I Became an Infidel." The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, edited by Christopher Hitchens. Da Capo Press, 2007, ch. 47.
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus im Pelz [Venus in Furs]. Stuttgart, 1870.
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus in Furs, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2000.
Ehrmann, Max. Desiderata. Michigan Tradesman, 5 Apr. 1933.
Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 3, ch. 1.
Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 4.
Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.