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 stereotyp