He was an indefatigable anthologist (one alone ran to 31 volumes), compiler, textbook author, diarist and correspondent (so besieged was he by admirers that he eventually wrote about 1,500 letters a year), and he composed in every genre: novel, romance, short story, travel sketch, essay, table talk, verse play, translation, epic, sonnet, ballad, elegy and lyric.
Sketches, essays, columns, speeches from a decade, some of them a bit mean-spirited, others gorgeous.
He wrote La Turista, Angel City, Cowboy Mouth, a collaboration with his one-time partner Patti Smith, among many others, before True West, Fool for Love, various short stories, sketches, essays and a screenplay for Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas.
Mr. Neider edited and annotated a dozen anthologies of Twain's short stories, humorous sketches, essays, travel books, novels and letters, as well as "The Autobiography of Mark Twain," published in 1959.
It was a unique enterprise, a felicitous combination of reminiscences, dramatic sketches, essays, short stories and opinion pieces that enabled Dostoyevsky to enter into an informal dialogue with his readers that reached far beyond the scope of even the most conversational or capacious of his novels.
Sketches, columns, essays, speeches from a decade, some of them a bit mean-spirited, others gorgeous.
He also regularly wrote sketches and essays, and contributed special articles to the Guardian.
In addition to the stories based on folklore, the collection contains travel sketches, literary essays, and miscellany.
"Stories," in fact, is not the word for these feuilletonistic flights of prose; they are squibs, sketches, anecdotes, essays, fantasies, or an unstable compound of all those.
Others were afterward edited by his son, William, as Sketches and Essays (1829), Literary Remains (1836), and Winterslow (1850) and by his biographer, P.P. Howe, as New Writings (1925 27).
Lewis also renovated his Vorticist creed by publishing a revised edition of Tarr, in 1928, and collecting his early Breton sketches and essays, in much-altered form, as The Wild Body (1927).
