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Preface | |
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Introduction: Reading and Writing indicates readings that are new to this edition | |
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Gloria Anzaldua How to Tame a Wild Tongue | |
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Kwame Anthony Appiah Facts on the Ground | |
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Francis Bacon Of Studies | |
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Russell Baker Growing Up | |
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James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son | |
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Dave Barry Road Warrior | |
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Roland Barthes Toys | |
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Sven Birkerts Into the Electronic Millennium | |
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Judy Brady I Want a Wife | |
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Jane Brox Influenza | |
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Angela Carter The Wound in the Face | |
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Lord Chesterfield Letter to His Son | |
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Christopher Claussen Against Work | |
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Judith Ortiz Cofer Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood | |
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K.C. Cole Calculated Risks | |
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Charles Darwin Natural Selection | |
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Joan Didion Marrying Absurd | |
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Joan Didion On Self-Respect | |
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Annie Dillard Living Like Weasels | |
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Annie Dillard Heaven and earth in Jest | |
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John Donne No Man is an Island | |
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Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write | |
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Brian Doyle Joyas Voladoras | |
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W.E.B. DuBois Of Our Spiritual Striving | |
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Andre Dubus Lights of the Long Night | |
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Gretel Ehrlich About Men | |
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Queen Elizabeth I Speech to the Troops at Tilbury | |
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Ralph Ellison Living with Music | |
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Anne Fadiman Birth | |
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Richard Feynman The Value of Science | |
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Benjamin Franklin Arriving at Perfection | |
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Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams | |
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Henry Louis Gates In the Kitchen | |
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Matthew Ghoulish Criticism | |
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Ellen Goodman The Company Man | |
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Mary Gordon More Than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island | |
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William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating | |
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Linda Hogan Dwellings | |
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Michael Hogan The Colonel | |
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Barbara Holland Naps | |
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Langston Hughes Salvation | |
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Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to Be Colored Me | |
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Pico Iyer Nowhere Man | |
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Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence | |
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Yoshida Kenko 189 | |
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Jamaica Kincaid On Seeing England for the First Time | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies | |
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Maxine Hong Kingston On Discovery | |
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August Kleinzhaler The Dog, the Family: A Household Tale | |
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Robin Tolmach Lakoff You Are What You Say | |
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D.H. Lawrence On Benjamin Franklin's Vitrues | |
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Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address | |
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Niccolo Machiavelli The Morals of the Prince | |
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Nancy Mairs On Being a Cripple | |
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Karl Marx & Frederich Engels The Communist Manifesto | |
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H.L. Mencken Portrait of an Ideal World | |
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Laura Miller Cat People vs. Dog People | |
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Horace Miner Body Language of the Nacirema | |
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N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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Michel de Montaigne Of Smalls | |
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Bharati Mukherjee Imagining Homelands | |
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Nuala O'Faolain Are You Somebody? | |
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George Orwell Politics and the English Language | |
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George Orwell Shooting an Elephant | |
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Cynthia Ozick The Seam of the Snail | |
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Plato The Allegory of the Cave | |
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Katherine Anne Porter The Necessary Enemy | |
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Anna Quindlen Between the Sexes a Great Divide | |
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Clotaire Rapaille Working for a Living: The Codes for Work and Money | |
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Richard Rodriguez Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood | |
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*Judy Ruiz Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy | |
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Nicola Sacco Letter from Charleston State Prison | |
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Scott Russell Sanders Under the Influence | |
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Luc Sante What Secrets Tell | |
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Chief Seattle Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott | |
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David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day | |
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David Sedaris Cyclops | |
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Leonard Shlain Nonverbal/Verbal | |
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Lee Siegel The World That Is the Case | |
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Leslie Marmon Silko Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination | |
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Susan Sontag A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? | |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | |
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Brent Staples Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space | |
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Shelby Steele On Being Black and Middle Class | |
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Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal | |
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Margaret Talbot Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart | |
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Amy Tan Mother Tongue | |
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Lewis Thomas The Corner of the Eye | |
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Henry David Thoreau Why I Went to the Woods | |
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Sojourner Truth Ain't I a Woman? | |
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Mark Twain Reading the River | |
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Alice Walker Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self | |
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David Foster Wallace Consider the Lobster | |
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Eudora Welty From Listening | |
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E.B. White Once More to the Lake | |
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Geoffrey Wolfe The Duke of Deception | |
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Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth | |
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Virginia Woolf Professions for Women | |