Grant by Ron Chernow: “Book epigraph, attributed "WALT WHITMAN, Specimen Days" — Whitman's reflection on Grant ("Seems to me it transcends Plutarch... the gods, the destinies, seem to have concentrated upon him") opens Chernow's biography.”
10:04 by Ben Lerner: “I would sit at my desk and read Specimen Days, his bizarre memoir, for hours.”
The Lights by Ben Lerner: “'sunburnt from reading Specimen Days on the small porch across the street'”