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In literature

Emblems of adversity

by Terrence Des Pres,

Seamus Heaney

The art of sunbathing

by Paul Fussell,

On discovering modernism at the beach

Southern comfort

by Walker Percy,

Now that the South has grown rich and rejoined the Union, even Southerners get lost in the lobby of the Peachtree Plaza Hotel

Heliophobia

by Rhoda Koenig,

Hunting for America

by Richard W. (Richard William) Murphy,

The writer and the city

by Alfred Kazin,

Vidal to Vidal

by Gore Vidal,

On misusing the past

The men-taming women of William Inge

by Robert Sanford Brustein,

How to get on in the world; or shake that dust from your coat

by Horatio Alger,

Quips, and cranks, and sleepless Wylies

by Harper’s Staff,

The easy chair

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

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