……行吧，我想。我觉得村上春树在《Norwegian Wood》和《South of the Border》里处于最佳状态——方式各不相同。你可能也会喜欢 Huxley 的《Chrome Yellow》。想换点不一样的，可以试试：Shaw 编的《American Essays》（http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000...）。如果你喜欢那些关于 Steve Jobs 的书，你可能会喜欢 Lewis 的《The new new thing》（讲 SGI 和 Netscape 创始人的）。……
…fine, I guess. I think Murakami is at his best in "Norwegian Wood" and "South of the Border" -- in different ways. You might also enjoy "Chrome Yellow" by Huxley. For something a bit different, try: "American Essays" edited by Shaw (http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000...). If you enjoyed the books on Steve Jobs, you might enjoy "The new new thing" by Lewis (on the founder of SGI and Netscape).…
…http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti... It has plenty of examples and advice on various types of writing. Beyond that, my advice is to simply read good texts. One starting point would be: http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000... Or, for something newer: http://brevity.org/misc/bestswi.html While doing a quick search, I also came across this: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/20/need-examples-...…
回复：散文 vs 博客 —— 几年前我很有幸在一家二手旧货店淘到了 Charles B. Shaw 编选的《American Essays》[1]。Shaw 在书的开篇部分写道：“美国的散文（……）没有任何一种文学形式能容纳如此广泛多样的主题。……
Re: Essay vs Blog -- I had the good fortune to come across "American Essays"[1] edited by Charles B. Shaw in a thrift shop some years ago. Shaw opens the book with, in-part: "The Essay In America (...) There is no literary form that embraces so wide a variety of inclusions.…
> i suspect that the blog format discourages the latter. I don't really see how the blog format makes this any worse than writing published essays did. The foreword to "American Essays"[1] edited by Shaw is remarkably relevant and on-point for what I would consider the good parts of blogs and on-line writing. There aren't all that many that I am aware of that write consistently and…
……整本选集都很棒，我最喜欢的几篇（排名不分先后）：1.《追帽子》（On running afters ones hat）2.《成功的谬误》（The fallacy of success）3.《对财富的崇拜》（The worship of the wealthy）。最近我在读《牛津美国散文选》（Oxford book of American Essays）[2]。我很喜欢本杰明·富兰克林的文章（《哨子》也在他的自传里）。Francis Hopkinson 的《Consolation for the old bachelor》非常逗。Charles Dudley Warner 的《Calvin a study of character》……
…the entire collection is good my favourites were in no particular order:- 1. On running afters ones hat 2. The fallacy of success 3. The worship of the wealthy These days I am reading Oxford book of American Essays[2]. I liked Benjamin Franklin's essays (The whistle was also in his autobiography). Consolation for the old bachelor (Francis Hopkinson) is very funny. Calvin a study of character (Charles Dudley Warner)…
……行吧，我想。我觉得村上春树在《Norwegian Wood》和《South of the Border》里处于最佳状态——方式各不相同。你可能也会喜欢 Huxley 的《Chrome Yellow》。想换点不一样的，可以试试：Shaw 编的《American Essays》（http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000...）。如果你喜欢那些关于 Steve Jobs 的书，你可能会喜欢 Lewis 的《The new new thing》（讲 SGI 和 Netscape 创始人的）。……
…fine, I guess. I think Murakami is at his best in "Norwegian Wood" and "South of the Border" -- in different ways. You might also enjoy "Chrome Yellow" by Huxley. For something a bit different, try: "American Essays" edited by Shaw (http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000...). If you enjoyed the books on Steve Jobs, you might enjoy "The new new thing" by Lewis (on the founder of SGI and Netscape).…
……http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti... 里面有大量关于各类写作的范例和建议。除此之外，我的建议就是去读好文章。一个切入点可以是：http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000... 或者读点更新的内容：http://brevity.org/misc/bestswi.html 顺手搜了一下，我还看到了这个：http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/20/need-examples-...……
…http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti... It has plenty of examples and advice on various types of writing. Beyond that, my advice is to simply read good texts. One starting point would be: http://www.amazon.com/American-Essays-Charles-B-Shaw/dp/B000... Or, for something newer: http://brevity.org/misc/bestswi.html While doing a quick search, I also came across this: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/20/need-examples-...…
回复：散文 vs 博客 —— 几年前我很有幸在一家二手旧货店淘到了 Charles B. Shaw 编选的《American Essays》[1]。Shaw 在书的开篇部分写道：“美国的散文（……）没有任何一种文学形式能容纳如此广泛多样的主题。……
Re: Essay vs Blog -- I had the good fortune to come across "American Essays"[1] edited by Charles B. Shaw in a thrift shop some years ago. Shaw opens the book with, in-part: "The Essay In America (...) There is no literary form that embraces so wide a variety of inclusions.…
> 我怀疑博客这种形式会打消后者的积极性。我真看不出博客形式怎么就比发表随笔散文更糟了。Shaw 编撰的《American Essays》[1] 的前言，对于我认为博客和网络写作中优秀的部分来说，可以说是极其贴切且切中要害。据我所知，能坚持稳定输出的人其实并没有那么多……
> i suspect that the blog format discourages the latter. I don't really see how the blog format makes this any worse than writing published essays did. The foreword to "American Essays"[1] edited by Shaw is remarkably relevant and on-point for what I would consider the good parts of blogs and on-line writing. There aren't all that many that I am aware of that write consistently and…
在读这些文章之前，你必须读读这本：http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Essays-Century-Series/dp...
Before reading these articles, you HAVE to read this: http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Essays-Century-Series/dp...
……整本选集都很棒，我最喜欢的几篇（排名不分先后）：1.《追帽子》（On running afters ones hat）2.《成功的谬误》（The fallacy of success）3.《对财富的崇拜》（The worship of the wealthy）。最近我在读《牛津美国散文选》（Oxford book of American Essays）[2]。我很喜欢本杰明·富兰克林的文章（《哨子》也在他的自传里）。Francis Hopkinson 的《Consolation for the old bachelor》非常逗。Charles Dudley Warner 的《Calvin a study of character》……
…the entire collection is good my favourites were in no particular order:- 1. On running afters ones hat 2. The fallacy of success 3. The worship of the wealthy These days I am reading Oxford book of American Essays[2]. I liked Benjamin Franklin's essays (The whistle was also in his autobiography). Consolation for the old bachelor (Francis Hopkinson) is very funny. Calvin a study of character (Charles Dudley Warner)…