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For non-fiction where each word matters, look for: 1. Texts that take storytelling seriously — • The Power Broker by Robert Caro • Annals of the Former World by John McPhee • 1453 by Roger Crowley 2. Texts that take arguments seriously — • Philosophical texts • The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander 3. Texts that take language seriously — • Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton • See #5 below 4. Texts that understand there is no hard distinction between the factual and the mythical — • Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung • Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje 5. Different styles: memoir, letters, essays — • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke • A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger • Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty

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