Up All Night

Those stories I loved—by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen, Lafcadio Hearn, E.T.A. Hoffman, and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm—linger still in my mind and heart. If you too tend to be nocturnal by nature, or even if you don’t, I recommend them to you.

I also recommend to you one of the greatest of all insomniac writers, Loren Eiseley, whose essay “The Judgement of the Birds