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Preface | p. xi |
Introduction: Reading and Writing with The Norton Reader | p. xvi |
Personal Report | p. 1 |
On Going Home | p. 1 |
A Hole in the Wall | p. 3 |
Graduation | p. 12 |
On Dumpster Diving | p. 21 |
On Being a Cripple | p. 30 |
The Knife | p. 40 |
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self | p. 47 |
Once More to the Lake | p. 53 |
People, Places | p. 59 |
Under the Influence | p. 59 |
An American Childhood | p. 70 |
Strangers | p. 75 |
Sowers and Reapers | p. 79 |
More Room | p. 85 |
The Way to Rainy Mountain | p. 88 |
True North | p. 95 |
Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America | p. 105 |
Human Nature | p. 118 |
Looking at Women | p. 118 |
Between the Sexes, a Great Divide | p. 128 |
Love | p. 131 |
Excuse Me While I Explode: My Mother, Myself, My Anger | p. 142 |
Why Women Smile | p. 149 |
What Is a Homosexual? | p. 155 |
On the Fear of Death | p. 160 |
How to Know If You're Dead | p. 166 |
Cultural Critique | p. 180 |
Is America Falling Apart? | p. 180 |
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain | p. 186 |
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! | p. 193 |
Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns | p. 198 |
Saudis in Bikinis | p. 200 |
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China | p. 202 |
The Case for Single-Child Families | p. 212 |
Black Men and Public Space | p. 221 |
Who Shot Johnny? | p. 224 |
Education | p. 228 |
Learning to Read | p. 228 |
Learning to Write | p. 233 |
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading | p. 237 |
College Pressures | p. 245 |
College Is a Waste of Time and Money | p. 251 |
Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's | p. 260 |
The Gender Gap at School | p. 262 |
The Dean's Daughter Gets Thin Envelope | p. 264 |
Thinking as a Hobby | p. 266 |
Taking Women Students Seriously | p. 272 |
Language and Communication | p. 279 |
"Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?" | p. 279 |
Tongue-Tied | p. 282 |
Aria | p. 286 |
Always Living in Spanish | p. 292 |
How to Tame a Wild Tongue | p. 294 |
How to Write a Letter | p. 304 |
Postcards | p. 306 |
Notes on Punctuation | p. 308 |
Literature, the Arts, and Media | p. 625 |
One Writer's Beginnings | p. 625 |
Good Readers and Good Writers | p. 631 |
Does a Literary Canon Matter? | p. 636 |
In Search of a Room of One's Own | p. 643 |
A Century of Cinema | p. 654 |
Understanding Comics | p. 662 |
Moving Along | p. 668 |
The Sound of Music | p. 671 |
How We Listen | p. 678 |
Philosophy and Religion | p. 683 |
Salvation | p. 683 |
In a Double Exile | p. 685 |
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For | p. 688 |
The Death of the Moth | p. 697 |
Sight into Insight | p. 699 |
The Allegory of the Cave | p. 710 |
Parables of the Kingdom | p. 713 |
Muddy Road, A Parable, Learning to Be Silent | p. 717 |
The Mystery of Zen | p. 718 |
Existentialism | p. 726 |
Authors | p. 737 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 757 |
Genres Index | p. 763 |
Rhetorical Index | p. 767 |
Thematic Index | p. 771 |
Index | p. 773 |
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