The Winchester Reader

Preface for instructors -- Part one: the first-person singular -- Writing for oneself : Anne Frank, Alice James, Henry David Thoreau, John Mack Faragher -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- Diary : at an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- On keeping a diary / William Safire -- Ambitions : Mario Puzo, Zora Neale Hurston, James Truslow Adams, Stephen Crane -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Gumption / Russell Baker -- Two kinds [story] / Amy Tan -- Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- A & P [story] / John Updike -- Places in the heart : Edward Abbey, D.H. Lawrence, Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Ringgold Street / David Bradley -- The power of names : William Shakespeare, Haig A. Bosmajian, Booker T. Washington, Lucien Levy-Bruhl -- "What's your name, girl?" / Maya Angelou -- Names / Mary McCarthy -- Seeing the elephant / Paul Gruchow -- Divided identities : Erik H. Erikson, Jan Clausen, Gloria Anzaldua -- Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda -- Split at the root : an essay on Jewish identity / Adrienne Rich -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Part two: the social fabric -- What is an American? : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Enrique Lopez -- What is an American? / J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur -- America : the multinational society / Ishmael Reed -- More than just a shrine : paying homage to the ghosts of Ellis island / Mary Gordon -- Bridging distances : Lewis Thomas, E.M. Forster, Cherrie Moraga, R.D. Laing -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- Distancing the homeless / Jonathan Kozol -- Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots : in the company of the mentally retarded / Sallie Tisdale -- Affirmations of love : Michael Denneny, Rose Weitz, Sigmund Freud -- The madness and myths of homophobia / George Weinberg -- Territory [story] / David Leavitt -- Don't tell me you don't know [story] / Dorothy Allison -- Crises of adolescence : Margaret Mead, Gail Sheehy, Laurence Steinberg -- From Teenagers in crisis / David Elkind -- Shopping [story] / Joyce Carol Oates -- A national obsession : Neil Postman, Pauline Kael, Maurine Doerken, Daniel J. Boorstin -- TV addition / Marie Winn -- Crack and the box / Pete Hamill -- Family stories : Clyde Edgerton, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Kittredge, Alex Haley -- Stories make a family / Elizabeth Stone -- Casa: a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Granddaddy / Itabari Njeri -- Part three : everyday life -- Anxieties of appearance : Louis Harris, Nellie Wong, Arthur Schopenhauer -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker -- A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron -- At war with my skin / John Updike -- Public space : Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Liu Binyan, Fran Lebowitz -- Territorial behavior / Desmond Morris -- Unfair game / Susan Jacoby -- Just walk on by : a black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples -- On holidays : Charles Dickens, Jeijun, Gwendolyn Brooks -- Happy New Year? / Russell Baker -- Ode to Thanksgiving / Michael Arlen -- On holidays and how to make them work / Nikki Giovanni -- Consumer culture : Thorstein Veblen, Sir Thomas More, Ellen Willis -- Kids in the mall : growing up controlled / William Severini Kowinski -- Shopping and other spiritual adventures in America today / Phyllis Rose -- The lesson [story] / Toni Cade Bambara -- The national pastime : Eve Babitz, Roger Angell, Elting E. Morison, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello -- Baseball : the ineffable national pastime / Gerald Early -- From father, with love / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- My baseball years / Philip Roth -- Part four : perspectives on gender -- The feminist movement today : Barbara Ehrenreich, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Rosario Morales, Audre Lorde -- Who says we haven't made a revolution? : a feminist takes stock / Vivian Gornick -- Feminisim: a transformational politic / bell hooks -- A letter to Matthew / Nancy Mairs -- Mothers : Marguerite Duras, Russell Baker, Marilyn French -- Ruth's song (because she could not sing it) / Gloria Steinem -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker -- Mothers and sons / Barbara Lazear Ascher -- Fathers : Robert Frost, Mary-Lou Weisman, Alice Walker -- Discovery of a father / Sherwood Anderson -- Bridging [story] / Max Apple -- Fathering [story] / Bharati Mukherjee -- Gender roles and stereotypes : Germaine Greer, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, David M. Potter, Dorothy L. Sayers -- How the Americans understand the equality of the sexes / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The woman of the future / Thomas Edison -- Girl [story] / Jamaica Kincaid -- The wimp factor / Bruce Curtis -- Resistance to stereotypes : Rita Mae Brown, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Paul Theroux -- Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf -- I want a wife / Judy Brady -- Mr. President / Bob Greene -- Conflicting loyalties : Olga Silverstein, Vivian Gornick, Terry Allen Kupers -- Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan -- Where I come from is like this / Paula Gunn Allen -- The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- Part five : enduring issues -- Declarations of independence : John Locke, Barbara C. Jordan, Mary Wollstonecraft -- The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- Declaration of independence of the democratioc republic of Viet-Nam / Ho Chi Minh -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The debate on abortion : Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Anna Quindlen, Ernest Hemingway, Florynce C. Kennedy -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- What I saw at the abortion / Richard Selzer -- Putting women back into the abortion debate / Ellen Willis -- Freedom of expression : Michel de Montaigne, Carl L. Becker, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor -- The indispensable opposition / Walter Lippmann -- 2 live crew, decoded / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Let's put pornography back in the closet / Susan Brownmiller -- Denigrating the species / H.L. Mencken, Taylor Caldwell, Thomas Hobbes -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Confession of faith / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The damned human race / Mark Twain -- Visions of the land : Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Noel Perrin, Brigid Brophy -- From The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau -- The journey's end / Wendell Berry -- A first American views his land / N. Scott Momaday -- Environmental action : Joy Williams, Aldo Leopold, J.E. Lovelock -- Natural man / Lewis Thomas -- Ecofeminism : our roots and flowering / Charlene Spretnak -- Women, home, and community : the struggle in an urban environment -- Part six : the power of language -- The languages of home : Barbara Mellix, Richard Rodriguez, An-Thu Quang Nguyen, Edmund Wilson -- The language of home / John Edgar Wideman -- From the poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall -- From A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The loudest voice [story] / Grace Paley -- Bilingualism : Tina Bakka, S.I. Hayakawa, Oscar Hijuelos -- Toward an American language / Richard Rodriguez -- Viva bilingualism / James Fallows -- Language and politics : Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- Words on words / Vaclav Havel -- Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan -- The power of metaphor : Aristotle, Jacob Bronowski, Cynthia Ozick, Judy Ruiz -- From Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson -- From AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Fighting words : Barbara Lawrence, Charles R. Lawrence, E. Digby Baltzell -- Words with built-in judgments / S.I. Hayakawa -- A question of language / Gloria Naylor -- The WASP sting / Anne Roiphe -- Part seven : the pleasures of the mind -- Sight into insight : Helen Keller, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Hoggart -- Seeing / Annie Dillard -- The stone horse / Barry Lopez -- The loss of the creature / Walker Percy -- The unexpected universe : Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Carl Sandburg -- Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould -- The star thrower / Loren Eiseley -- Much ado about nothing / K.C. Cole -- Understanding horror : Stephen King, William James, Richard Wright -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [story] / Edgar Allan Poe -- In pursuit of pure horror / Harper's Magazine -- Origins : Robert Graves, Barbara C. Sproul, Isaac Bashevis Singer -- From Symposium / Plato -- Chapters one, two, and three / Genesis -- The time when there were no people on the earth plain / Bering Strait Eskimo creation myth -- The search for truth : Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Woody Allen -- Idols of the mind / Francis Bacon -- Stripping the mind of its beliefs / Rene Descartes -- Emptiness / Shunryu Suzuki -- Why we write : George Orwell, Toni Cade Bambara, Annie Dillard -- Why it write / Joan Didion / Nurturing resistance / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- I write for revenge against reality / Francine du Plessiz Gray -- B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca [story] / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- The act of reading : Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Vladimir Nabokov, Edna Buchanan -- From Black boy / Richard Wright -- A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- Four kinds of reading / Donald Hall -- The art of reading / Lin Yutang -- The writers.