Other Words A Writer's Reader

Other Words: A Writer's ReaderTable 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