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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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