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He wrote this in an essay collected in a book that came out a year before his fatal heart attack.
Gina Rarick, who trains racehorses in Paris, wrote an essay collected in "To the Swift: Classic Triple Crown Horses and Their Race for Glory".
One essay collected here — it deserves to be rediscovered and widely anthologized — is "Mean Sod's Guide," a tongue-in-cheek tutorial about how to "stint your guests on quality and quantity" while seeming to have done them very well.
"Black studies," he writes in an essay collected in "Stolen Life," "is a dehiscence at the heart of the institution on its edge; its broken, coded documents sanction walking in another world while passing through this one, graphically disordering the administered scarcity from which black studies flows as wealth".
This statement by Albert Camus is Nadine Gordimer's credo, she tells us in a 2006 essay collected in Telling Times, (Telling Times: Writing and Living 1950-2008, Bloomsbury, £35), the magisterial anthology of her non-fiction written since 1950, which serves as a companion to Life Times, a new collection of her short stories.
In "A Question of Identity" (another essay collected in "Notes of a Native Son"), he writes, "The truth about that past is not that it is too brief, or too superficial, but only that we, having turned our faces so resolutely away from it, have never demanded from it what it has to give".
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Why weren't these essays collected before?
On the other hand, while Collected Essays may be complacent, the essays collected almost never are.
All the essays collected here began life elsewhere as reviews and higher journalism.
Despite this virtuosity, the essays collected here are notably slighter than his usual output.
His essays, collected in Making Waves (1996), chart his disenchantment with the legacy of Che Guevara as "messianic dogma".
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