50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

Synopsis

Introduction For Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, And The Writing Process -- Chimamanda Adichie, To My One Love -- Sherman Alexie, The Joy Of Reading And Writing -- Superman And Me -- Gloria Anzaldúa, How To Tame A Wild Tongue -- Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion -- James Baldwin, Notes Of A Native Son -- James Boswell, On War -- William F. Buckley Jr., Why Don't We Complain? -- Alan Burdick, The Truth About Invasive Species -- Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? -- Ta-nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style Of American Policing -- Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth Of The Latin Woman: I Just Met A Girl Named María -- Daniel Defoe, The Education Of Women -- Joan Didion, On Keeping A Notebook -- Frederick Douglass, Learning To Read And Write -- Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladores -- Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving In Florida -- Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving -- Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie -- Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted --^ Christina Henriquez, Lunch -- Langston Hughes, Salvation -- Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels To Be Colored Me -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration Of Independence -- Camden Joy, Surviving Sinatra -- Jamaica Kincaid, The Ugly Tourist -- Stephen King, Reading To Write -- Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night -- Audre Lorde, The Fourth Of July -- Nancy Mairs, On Being A Cripple -- Malcolm X, Learning To Read -- John Mcphee, The Search For Marvin Gardens -- Lydia Millet, Victor's Hall -- Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways To Belong In America -- George Orwell, Shooting An Elephant -- Plato, The Allegory Of The Cave -- Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memoir Of A Bilingual Childhood -- Mike Rose, I Just Wanna Be Average -- Oliver Sacks, My Periodic Table -- David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day -- Brent Staples, Just Walk On By: Black Men And Public Space -- John Jeremiah Sullivan, Feet In Smoke -- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal -- Amy Tan, Mother Tongue --^ Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience -- James Thurber, The Subjunctive Mood -- Miya Tokumitsu, In The Name Of Love -- E. B. White, Once More To The Lake -- Colson Whitehead, The Loser Edit -- Virginia Woolf, Professions For Women -- Dave Zirin, Pre-game. Edited By Samuel Cohen. Includes Index.