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Alison Doherty

Alison Doherty is a writing teacher and part time assistant professor living in Brooklyn, New York. She has an MFA from The New School in writing for children and teenagers. She loves writing about books on the Internet, listening to audiobooks on the subway, and reading anything with a twisty plot or a happily ever after.

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I love reading books of nonfiction essays and memoirs , but sometimes have a hard time committing to a whole book. This is especially true if I don’t know the author. But reading nonfiction essays online is a quick way to learn which authors you like. Also, reading nonfiction essays can help you learn more about different topics and experiences.

Besides essays on Book Riot,  I love looking for essays on The New Yorker , The Atlantic , The Rumpus , and Electric Literature . But there are great nonfiction essays available for free all over the Internet. From contemporary to classic writers and personal essays to researched ones—here are 25 of my favorite nonfiction essays you can read today.

“Beware of Feminist Lite” by  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The author of We Should All Be Feminists  writes a short essay explaining the danger of believing men and woman are equal only under certain conditions.

“It’s Silly to Be Frightened of Being Dead” by Diana Athill

A 96-year-old woman discusses her shifting attitude towards death from her childhood in the 1920s when death was a taboo subject, to World War 2 until the present day.

“Letter from a Region in my Mind” by James Baldwin

There are many moving and important essays by James Baldwin . This one uses the lens of religion to explore the Black American experience and sexuality. Baldwin describes his move from being a teenage preacher to not believing in god. Then he recounts his meeting with the prominent Nation of Islam member Elijah Muhammad.

“Relations” by Eula Biss

Biss uses the story of a white woman giving birth to a Black baby that was mistakenly implanted during a fertility treatment to explore racial identities and segregation in society as a whole and in her own interracial family.

“Friday Night Lights” by Buzz Bissinger

A comprehensive deep dive into the world of high school football in a small West Texas town.

“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Coates examines the lingering and continuing affects of slavery on  American society and makes a compelling case for the descendants of slaves being offered reparations from the government.

“Why I Write” by Joan Didion

This is one of the most iconic nonfiction essays about writing. Didion describes the reasons she became a writer, her process, and her journey to doing what she loves professionally.

“Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Roger Ebert

With knowledge of his own death, the famous film critic ponders questions of mortality while also giving readers a pep talk for how to embrace life fully.

“My Mother’s Tongue” by Zavi Kang Engles

In this personal essay, Engles celebrates the close relationship she had with her mother and laments losing her Korean fluency.

“My Life as an Heiress” by Nora Ephron

As she’s writing an important script, Ephron imagines her life as a newly wealthy woman when she finds out an uncle left her an inheritance. But she doesn’t know exactly what that inheritance is.

“My FatheR Spent 30 Years in Prison. Now He’s Out.” by Ashley C. Ford

Ford describes the experience of getting to know her father after he’s been in prison for almost all of her life. Bridging the distance in their knowledge of technology becomes a significant—and at times humorous—step in rebuilding their relationship.

“Bad Feminist” by Roxane Gay

There’s a reason Gay named her bestselling essay collection after this story. It’s a witty, sharp, and relatable look at what it means to call yourself a feminist.

“The Empathy Exams” by Leslie Jamison

Jamison discusses her job as a medical actor helping to train medical students to improve their empathy and uses this frame to tell the story of one winter in college when she had an abortion and heart surgery.

“What I Learned from a Fitting Room Disaster About Clothes and Life” by Scaachi Koul

One woman describes her history with difficult fitting room experiences culminating in one catastrophe that will change the way she hopes to identify herself through clothes.

“Breasts: the Odd Couple” by Una LaMarche

LaMarche examines her changing feelings about her own differently sized breasts.

“How I Broke, and Botched, the Brandon Teena Story” by Donna Minkowitz

A journalist looks back at her own biased reporting on a news story about the sexual assault and murder of a trans man in 1993. Minkowitz examines how ideas of gender and sexuality have changed since she reported the story, along with how her own lesbian identity influenced her opinions about the crime.

“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell

In this famous essay, Orwell bemoans how politics have corrupted the English language by making it more vague, confusing, and boring.

“Letting Go” by David Sedaris

The famously funny personal essay author , writes about a distinctly unfunny topic of tobacco addiction and his own journey as a smoker. It is (predictably) hilarious.

“Joy” by Zadie Smith

Smith explores the difference between pleasure and joy by closely examining moments of both, including eating a delicious egg sandwich, taking drugs at a concert, and falling in love.

“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan

Tan tells the story of how her mother’s way of speaking English as an immigrant from China changed the way people viewed her intelligence.

“Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace

The prolific nonfiction essay and fiction writer  travels to the Maine Lobster Festival to write a piece for Gourmet Magazine. With his signature footnotes, Wallace turns this experience into a deep exploration on what constitutes consciousness.

“I Am Not Pocahontas” by Elissa Washuta

Washuta looks at her own contemporary Native American identity through the lens of stereotypical depictions from 1990s films.

“Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White

E.B. White didn’t just write books like Charlotte’s Web and The Elements of Style . He also was a brilliant essayist. This nature essay explores the theme of fatherhood against the backdrop of a lake within the forests of Maine.

“Pell-Mell” by Tom Wolfe

The inventor of “new journalism” writes about the creation of an American idea by telling the story of Thomas Jefferson snubbing a European Ambassador.

“The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf

In this nonfiction essay, Wolf describes a moth dying on her window pane. She uses the story as a way to ruminate on the lager theme of the meaning of life and death.

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• Registration . Does the tool require registration? Many students don't like the registration process because it is time-consuming. So, you can go for an easily accessible online tool where you can copy and paste your text on the go without the hassle of registering your personal details.
• Volume . Check if the tool has volume control features ad if there is a pause or rewind button.
• Voice . Can you select a male or female voice? Are the voices natural or contain pitch variations?
• Speech tempo . How long does the tool take to read text per minute? Can you alter the speed to your preference?
• Pop-up ads . Some tools might have annoying pop-up ads, which can be distracting. So, you can choose a converter tool with zero to fewer ads.

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🤔 read my essay to me: how to use.

Below is a short instruction that explains how to use the text-to-speech tool above.

Copy the text from your document and insert it into the respective field.

Select the voice you prefer to vocalize your text from the drop-down list box.

Once you’ve pasted the text and selected the natural reader, press the “Listen” button.

If you need to go back and listen to a different text, there is a special button for this purpose.

You’ve probably heard of online and offline tools that can read a text aloud. So, what is Text to Speech in technical terms? Text to Speech (often abbreviated as TTS) is a form of assistive technology . Read My Essay to Me is one of TTS systems used to voice over any printed text online.

The Text to Speech tool works on any personal digital device. There are applications designed for each mobile operating system (that work on iPhone or Android). Alternatively, you can use an online tool in Chrome or any other browser you prefer. These tools can even read web pages aloud.

The computer generates the voice in TTS, but you can select the reading speed and the speaker. There are several variants of male and female voices entitled by the respective names. The voice quality depends on the tool, but many of them sound human. Some even feature a child’s voice for you to listen to. There are even robot voices that sound like children speaking.

The tool highlights the words as they are read aloud. It allows you to track the reading and is especially beneficial for foreign language learners.

Some Text to Speech tools can read out loud from an image. This technology is called optical character recognition or OCR. For example, you can take a photo of a street sign or a public notice and listen to it through the TTS app or website.

As we have mentioned before, Text to Speech tool can help people who learn a foreign language. But it can also facilitate the lives of those who have problems with writing, editing, and focusing. According to computer science research , such assistive technology is helpful for people with dyslexia. It motivates them to read by making the process more enjoyable and comfortable. The case study performed during the same research indicated an improved fluency and comprehension in the control group.

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It helps to evaluate the plot attractiveness or the content consistency. In the course of creating an essay, you get distracted by the need to type on a keyboard or write on paper. You look up the right words and return to the introduction to check your thesis statement . In a word, you do a whole lot of things that distract you from the beauty of the text. The only way to make it sparkle is to reread it.

Still, you are familiar with what you wanted to say. Our mind tricks us into believing that other people will understand us just as intended. But if you listen to your essay read by a different person, you will find many passages that require rewriting .

• It shows if the argumentation is clear and sufficiently grounded. In the follow-up to the previous point, argumentation must be complete. Read My Essay to Me can show you where your evidence is insufficient or needs more substantial arguments.

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Who else should find out how to use a Text to Speech converter? We believe that anyone can find a practical application to this tool, but the following groups of people will find it helpful strait away.

• Auditory learners. If it refers to you, 100% that you are aware of it. People with a well-developed auditory perception memorize information better when they listen to it (rather than read, write down, or see it as a phenomenon). Listen to your reading assignment via the tool and upgrade your academic performance!
• People with dyslexia. Such people have problems with reading, although they are normally intelligent. They are affected to various degrees. Still, TTS tools can help people with problems in spelling words, low reading speed, “sounding out” words in their heads, or pronouncing them while reading aloud.
• People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other emotional disabilities. Autism Speaks reported that almost 25% of people with ASD are low-functioning or non-verbal communicators. They can use TTS as a voice dictation tool for writing assistance or a real-life conversation simulator.
• Those who lack time for traditional reading. Have you been assigned a 300-page book by the next week? If it is in the public domain, you can upload it into Read My Essay to Me and listen to it while doing your domestic chores. It will be handy for literature that is unavailable in audiobook format.

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❓ how can i get my essay read to me.

• Copy your essay from the file on your device.
• Paste it into the respective field of Read My Essay to Me tool.
• Select the voice (male or female in some variations) you’d like to listen to.
• Press the button below the text to convert it into an audio version.

❓ How can I convert text to audio for free?

To convert text into audio, you have to have an internet connection and any browser installed on your computer or mobile device. Go to Read My Essay to Me and insert the text in question into the blank field. Press the Read My Essay button to listen to its audio version.

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There are dozens of Text-to-Speech tools available for all sorts of mobile devices and computers, including all possible operational systems. Still, the best free TTS tool is Read My Essay to Me. It is relatively simple. It has the widest choice of voices and an unlimited number of words in the text.

❓ Is there a website that will read a text to me?

Read My Essay to Me will read any typed text of any length for you. It is intuitively clear for a user of any experience level. You can choose the preferred voice that will vocalize your essay. You can insert any text, from a one-page paper to a hundred-page book, since words are limitless.

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I’ve sat through every day of Trump’s criminal trial. This is what it’s really like

Only reporters and a handful of members of the public are able to witness the surreal spectacle of the former president struggling to stay awake for his own trial, alex woodward writes.

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A few dozen reporters raced for the exits the moment New York state court officers let us leave the 15th floor courtroom.

From a stairwell window I could see a plume of smoke in the small park across the street. Down another floor, I could see the crowd forming around it. Down another, an ambulance and police. The smell of gas and burning flesh then hit me as I walked through the front door.

On the fourth and final day of jury selection in Donald Trump ’s criminal trial in Manhattan , a man had self-immolated behind police barriers on the other side of the street.

I’ve attended every day of the first-ever criminal trial of an American president , and the harrowing image of a pile of ash and debris on cement just steps away from where dozens of reporters line up every morning to get into the courthouse is seared into my memory, but barely remembered in the surreal spectacle taking place inside.

While cops chased down his neon pamphlets flying in the breeze towards a phalanx of news cameras, a distraught cameraman cursed at the scene in front of him; not because of what he had seen, but because he left for lunch and missed his shot. I asked the court’s trenchcoat-wearing spokesperson if the trial was delayed. He smiled. “I’m headed there right now,” he told me.

After snaking through two lines for metal detectors downstairs, up the elevators back to the 15th floor, through another two rows of bag checks and another set of metal detectors, we filed back into the courtroom before the former president trudged inside and plopped himself at the defense table .

There, we continued to bear witness to a silent and tired Trump, who slouches, stares and keeps his eyes shut for six to seven hours a day, three to four days a week — a view that’s been afforded to only his entourage and the handfuls of attorneys, court officers, journalists and members of the public allowed inside.

He lumbers in and out of the court, sits briefly by himself at the defense table before his attorneys join him, then keeps his eyes closed for most of the day. His mouth falls open occasionally, before he appears to snap awake and scrunch his face as if he’s listening harder. He sinks into his chair and disappears, barely a witness to his own trial.

Getting there takes some time and patience. I get in line across the street before sunrise behind a few other reporters and professional line holders who make $50 an hour to sleep in camp chairs, personal tents and blankets for overnight shifts, paid by larger media networks to guarantee a spot inside. After we’re allowed inside around 8.30 am, I find a seat in one of the rows of wood benches inside an adjoining courtroom with space for roughly 100 people, watching next door’s closed-circuit broadcast on three large TV screens.

We’re joined by a motley crew of everyday citizens eager to witness history up close. In the public line next to us were retirees visiting their daughter during college graduation, a California attorney on vacation who couldn’t resist a courtroom, and high school students skipping class.

And then there were the returning characters. One man with backpacks made out of clocks said he was hoping to sell trial body language information to online betting sites. A pair of Trump-supporting Chinese women in USA-branded hats and apparel unfurled an American flag. John McIntosh, who lugged around a suitcase, used the lines to collect the thousands of signatures he needs to get on the ballot for US Senate.

Sylvia Achee walked up and down the line carrying a handbag-sized speaker playing her husband D-Achee’s song “Liars Must Go” while handing out printed-out lyric sheets. In the small park on the other side of the fence, a woman blew a shofar and played CeCe Winans’ “Come Jesus Come” from her phone and into a bullhorn.

Inside the courtroom , boldface media names — like CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Kaitlan Collins — sat alongside veteran court reporters and exhausted print journalists operating on little sleep. During her one-day visit, I sat next to Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro, who filled a notebook with handwritten notes before she went on air to rip into Stormy Daniels . A few days later, the former president stood in the hallway and read one of her statements calling the judge a “fool.”

More than a dozen New York court officers direct the steady flow of foot traffic, but it’s Mr Trump’s presence that sets the rules. While he’s on the floor, unloading grievances and barking at the small pool of reporters and cameras stationed in a barricaded pen in the hallway, steps away from the men’s bathroom, we’re effectively forced to shelter in place.

When he’s inside, we’re free, and he goes right back to sitting at the defense table, mute and staring at nothing, out of view of the rest of the world, except for us.

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