The Impatient Reader | The American 250
Rainey KnudsonHome of The American 250: 250 words on 250 objects, throughout 2026. Ultra-short entries on art and other things.
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184. Charles Portis, True Grit
The Arkansas writer Charles Portis was taught alongside Hawthorne and Whitman in high school honors English classes in the 1970s, but he had largely disappeared from the American literary consciousness by the late 80s, his works mostly...
183. Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking
At a 2001 panel during the opening of the short-lived Copia Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa, Julia Child was asked what her favorite food was. The answer was a baked potato with butter and salt. She went on to reminisce about the 1...
182. James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son (1955) collected ten of James Baldwin’s early essays written in America and Europe. ‘Equal in Paris’ is the grimly comic recounting of eight days spent in a freezing French jail over Christmas, barely able to speak...
181. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
The first year after the death of a loved one is an unreal suspension as the mind struggles to know the new knowledge. Grief is the process of learning that knowledge over and over, every morning’s waking a little reprieve before: you r...
180. Larry McMurtry, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
Dear readers, earlier this year I featured books I love by living authors, and this week I’m doing the same for the deceased. The first is close to home: my fellow Texan and Rice University alum, Larry McMurtry. My enduring favorite of his...
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I keep it short. Art and other things. Author of The MFAH 100; founder of Glasstire: Texas visual art online.
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