Annie Dillard
Total Eclipse
A celebrated 1982 essay by Annie Dillard exploring the sublime experience of a total solar eclipse
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Samantha CulpFirst to rec“Perhaps obvious, but Annie Dillard’s 1982 Total Eclipse essay is hard to beat for this category”
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Dylan“RIP Annie Dillard. Buy a copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (or An American Childhood) if you don’t already have one. But read this essay now, and keep it in your regular rotation.”
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