"We don't do liposuction on anorexics," he wrote in one essay.
And some of his efforts to concoct broad generalities -- male writers, he suggests in one essay, tend to impose themselves on their characters, while most female writers masochistically seek to let their characters speak through them -- feel pretentious and false.
In one essay, Main writes that to go home on school holidays was "to return to a wild, lonely, forgotten piece of unwanted 'useless' land".
"Going to Woodstock was interesting," he writes in one essay.
He mentions in one essay that he has a very rare blood type.
In one essay, from May 1963, the British Nobel laureate referred to beauty nine times.
In one essay, Hamid says he's in "self-exile from the United States".
In one essay after the next, women come undone by liquor.
In one essay, Eco discussed the figure-hugging comfort of his own denim Levi's.
Conservative writer Kathryn Jean Lopez, in one essay for the magazine, chirruped that "being grateful for any and all opportunities may be the place to start".
In one essay, Nancy Mairs comes to the following conclusion about art and madness: "I don't think that the artist creates because she is mad.
