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But this expanded essay is still essential reading.
Within days of their first meeting, he delivered a revised and greatly expanded essay running over 50 printed pages and including a reminder of Napoleon I's words of 1803: "In ceding Louisiana I strengthen forever the power of the United States and give to England a rival upon the sea which sooner or later shall abase her pride".
In expanded essay form, it was later collected in Sedaris's first book, "Barrel Fever," and more than 10 years later it still pops off the page as a terrific piece of writing -- funny, fresh, beautifully observed and above all, savage in its appraisal of a culture lashing itself miserably to its annual rites of good cheer.
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Her article "Cather and the Academy" was included in the "The Best American Essays 1996"; she later expanded the essay into the book "Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism".
(Löwenthal expanded the essay into "The Triumph of Mass Idols," in 1961).
He expanded the essay into a book, Darkness Visible, the first modern example of a now burgeoning literary form, the depression memoir.
One might ask why Ulin expanded the essay at all, except that the uninspiring answer — because an editor offered to publish it — is presented up front, in Ulin's acknowledgments.
Now he has expanded that essay into a book, The House of Twenty Thousand Books, which brings his grandparents and their world to life.
"The Nasty Girl," based on a true story and screening Friday night as part of Saddleback College's free foreign film series, shows how the village turned on Sonja when she expanded her essay into a critically cheered book after high school.
The Best American Short Stories anthology has been running for 100 years, and in the last century the Best American series has expanded to Essays, Comics, Travel Writing, and more.
In the immediate aftermath of the election shocked as I was by the results—I felt compelled to revise and expand that essay into a full-length research article, titled "Before Trump: On Comparing Fascism and Trumpism," which appears in the current issue of JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism (see Resources below).
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