American Writing Today intends to be a comprehensive critical survey of the past 35 years of American poetry and fiction. The chapters of this book are based upon a series of broadcats that were aired over the Voice of America in 1980
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now consists of 24 "journalistic homilies" or "meditations", many of which are autobiographical, that range in number from 63 to a few hundred words. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouldn%27t_Take_Nothing_for_My_Journey_Now]