Land of Wizards

• by Tom Wolfe
• from Popular Mechanics / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Tiger in the Road!

• by Geoffrey C. Ward
• from Audubon / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Rumors Around Town

• by Calvin Trillin
• from The New Yorker / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1986/01/06/rumors-around-town
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

A Higher Horror of the Whiteness: Cocaine's Coloring of the American Psyche

• by Robert Stone
• from Harper's Magazine / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://harpers.org/archive/1986/12/a-higher-horror-of-the-whiteness-cocaines-coloring-of-the-american-psyche/
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

The Inheritance of Tools

• by Scott Russell Sanders
• from The North American Review / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain

• by Phyllis Rose
• from The Atlantic / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1986/10/paris-tools-of-torture/667413/
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

A Stranger in Lolitaland

• by Gregor Von Rezzori
• from Vanity Fair / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1986/8/in-pursuit-of-lolita
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Pictures

• by Samuel Pickering, JR.
• from The Southern Review / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

The Lay Intellectual (Apologia Pro Vita Sua)

• by William Pfaff
• from Salmagundi / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5379/biography-ted-williams-0686/
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

The Master Builder

• by Elting E. Morison
• from American Heritage of Invention & Technology / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/master-builder-2
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

The Stone Horse

• by Barry Lopez
• from Antaeus / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Against Joie de Vivre

• by Phillip Lopate
• from Ploughshares / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://www.pshares.org/issues/spring-1986/against-joie-de-vivre
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Winter

• by Donald Hall
• from Hood Museum of Art exhibition catalogue / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

"This Guy Wouldn't Give You the Parsley off His Fish"

• by Gary Giddins
• from The Grand Street / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

They Said You Was High Class

• by Joseph Epstein
• from The American Scholar / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

The Case of Harry Houdini

• by Daniel Mark Epstein
• from The New Criterion / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://newcriterion.com/issues/1986/10/the-case-of-harry-houdini
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Popular Mechanics

https://www.popularmechanics.com/

The Best American Essays 1987

• TOM WOLFE.    Land of Wizards
  

Audubon

https://www.audubon.org/audubonmagazine

The Best American Essays 1987

• GEOFFREY C. WARD.    Tiger in the Road!
  

The North American Review

https://northamericanreview.org/

The Best American Essays 1987

• SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS.    The Inheritance of Tools
  

Vanity Fair

https://www.vanityfair.com/

The Best American Essays 1987

• GREGOR VON REZZORI.    A Stranger in Lolitaland
  

The Southern Review

https://thesouthernreview.org/

The Best American Essays 1987

• SAMUEL PICKERING, JR.    Pictures
  

Salmagundi

https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/

The Best American Essays 1987

• WILLIAM PFAFF.    The Lay Intellectual (Apologia Pro Vita Sua)
  

American Heritage of Invention & Technology

https://www.inventionandtech.com/

The Best American Essays 1987

• ELTING E. MORISON.    The Master Builder
  

Hood Museum of Art exhibition catalogue

The Best American Essays 1987

• DONALD HALL.    Winter
  

The New Criterion

https://newcriterion.com/

The Best American Essays 1987

• DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN.    The Case of Harry Houdini
  

Antaeus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antaeus_(magazine)

The Best American Essays 1987

• GRETEL EHRLICH.    Spring
  
• BARRY LOPEZ.    The Stone Horse
  

Spring

• by Gretel Ehrlich
• from Antaeus / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

On Writing a Novel

• by Richard Ben Cramer
• from Esquire / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://classic.esquire.com/article/1986/10/1/how-to-write-a-novel
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?

• by Richard Ben Cramer
• from Esquire / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: 
• https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5379/biography-ted-williams-0686/
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Teacher

• by John Barth
• from Harper's Magazine / The Best American Essays 1987
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3748224W/The_Best_American_Essays_1987

Julia

• by John Wain
• from The American Scholar / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

On Italo Calvino

• by Gore Vidal
• from The New York Review of Books / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at:
• https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/11/21/on-italo-calvino/
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

Visions of the Pacific

• by Frederick Turner
• from Southwest Review / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

The Body of Bach

• by Edward Rothstein
• from The New Republic / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

The First Day of School: Washington Square, 1946

• by Cynthia Ozick
• from Harper's Magazine / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at: 
• https://harpers.org/archive/1985/09/the-first-day-of-school/
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

On Boxing

• by Joyce Carol Oates
• from The New York Times Magazine / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at: 
• https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/16/magazine/on-boxing.html
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

Morality and Foreign Policy

• by George F. Kennan
• from Foreign Affairs / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at: 
• https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1985-12-01/morality-and-foreign-policy
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

Dressed to Thrill

• by Anne Hollander
• from The New Republic / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at:
• https://www.anne-hollander.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Dressed-to-Thrill.pdf
• https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986

Nasty Little Facts

• by Stephen Jay Gould
• from Natural History / The Best American Essays 1986
• Read at: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15834798W/The_Best_American_essays_1986