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Other Words: A Writer's ReaderTable of ContentsIntroduction Heather Abel & Emily Chenoweth Emily & Heather from The Friend Who Got Away ...
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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
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