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Teaching a Stone to Talk
by Annie Dillard
Dillard's essays on a total eclipse, the Galápagos, weasels, silence. The eclipse essay alone is worth the book.
Read it if…
you want Dillard's essays at their sharpest.
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Skip it if…
you want her long work; see Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Try instead: An American Childhood →
Three things you will actually use
- Attention is devotion.
- The world is stranger than you think.
- Live like the weasel.
Do this first
Read 'Total Eclipse'.
Our verdict
Dillard's essays.
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