Other Words: A Writer's Reader

Table of Contents

Introduction
 
Heather Abel & Emily Chenoweth
Emily & Heather
from The Friend Who Got Away
 
Kathy Acker
Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body
from The Last Sex
 
Faith Adiele
Orchids: Half Sacred, Half Profane
from Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey
 
Gloria Anzaldúa
The Homeland, Aztlán / El otro México
from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
 
Image #1: The Hajj
 
Dorie Bargmann
Thirteen More Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
from Prairie Schooner
 
Nicholas Carr
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
from The Atlantic
 
Charles D'Ambrosio
Brick Wall
from Orphans
 
Lis Goldschmidt & Dean Spade
My Memory and Witness
from Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
 
Image #2: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
 
Judyth Har-Even
Leaving Babylon: A Walk Through the Jewish Divorce Ceremony
from Creative Non-Fiction
 
Michael S. Kimmel
"What About the Boys?" What the Current Debates Tell Us--and Don't Tell Us--About Boys in School
from Michigan Feminist Studies
 
Jamaica Kincaid
A Small Place
from A Small Place
 
William Davies King
My Metaphor Weighs Tons
from Collections of Nothing
 
Field Maloney
Is Whole Foods Wholesome?
from Slate
 
Image #3: Out of Iowa
 
Scott McCloud
The Vocabulary of Comics
from Understanding Comics
 
Bill McKibben
Human Restoration
from The Return of the Wolf: Reflections on the Future of Wolves in the Northeast
 
John Medeiros
One Sentence
from Gulf Coast
 
Maja Mikula
Gender and Videogames: The Political Valency of Lara Croft
from Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
 
Rebekah Nathan
Life in the Dorms
from My Freshman Year: What A Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
 
Image #4: Opposites Attract
 
Michael Pollan 
Why Bother? 
from The New York Times Magazine
 
Miranda Purves & Jason Logan
The Last Bus Home
from The New York Times
 
María Cristina Rangel
Knowledge Is Power
from Listen Up: Voices of the Next Feminist Generation
 
Richard Rodriguez
The North American
from Public Discourse in America: Conversations and Community in the Twenty-First Century
 
Image #5: More Equal Than Others
 
George Saunders
The Braindead Megaphone
from The Braindead Megaphone
 
David K. Shipler
At the Edge of Poverty
from The Working Poor: Invisible in America
 
Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others
from Regarding the Pain of Others
 
Richard Stengel
A Time to Serve
from Time
 
Image #6: Comfort Women
 
Andrew Sullivan
Why I Blog
from The Atlantic
 
Amy Tan
The Language of Discretion
from The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
 
UCLA Student WebZine
Ask Not What You Can Do For Your University, But What Your University Can Do For You
from The Daily Brewin'
 
Kurt Vonnegut
1983: New York
from Fates Worse Than Death
 
David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster
from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
 
Intersections
 
Biographies