The Riverside reader / [edited by] Joseph F. Trimmer, Maxine Hairston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Guidelines for Reading an Essay -- Sample Analysis of an Essay: -- How Reading Changed My Life / Anna Quindlen -- Guidelines for Writing an Essay -- A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Deloris / Lauren Briner -- The Veil / Marjane Satrapi -- My Name is Margaret / Maya Angelou -- Basketball Season / Donna Tartt -- The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Digging / Andre Dubus -- Shooting an Elephant / George Orwell -- The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant / W.D. Wetherell -- Digging Limestone / Scott Russell Sanders -- Making Stained Glass / Sara Temple -- How Many It Takes / James Stevenson -- Drawing an Experience / Ann Zwinger -- Third World Driving Hints and Tips / P.J. O'Rourke -- Campus Racism / Nikki Giovanni -- Arranging a Marriage in India / Serena Nanda -- The Knife / Richard Selzer -- The Golden Darters / Elizabeth Winthrop -- FDR and Truman / David McCullough -- Howard and Rush / Nathan M. Harms -- Don Hong-Oai, "At Play" and "Tianzi Mountains" -- Two Views of the River / Mark Twain -- Cowboys v Mounties / Sarah Vowell -- Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa / David Sedaris -- A Tale of Two Divorces / Anne Roiphe -- Shakespeare in the Bush / Laura Bohannan -- Everyday Use / Alice Walker -- Conservation is Good Work / Wendell Berry -- Gentlemen! Start Your Engines / Gareth Tucker -- Cloud Chart / Roz Chast -- The Truth about Lying / Judith Viorst -- Shades of Black / Mary Mebane -- Mother Tongue / Amy Tan -- Four Kinds of Chance / James H. Austin -- Five Myths about Immigration / David Cole -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- Consumption / Jeremy Rifkin -- Personality / Jason Utesch -- Ad Busters, Photo of Tattoos -- A Word's Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It / Gloria Naylor -- The Hoax / John Berendt -- Pain / Diane Ackerman -- Attention! Multitaskers / James Gleich -- On Friendship / Francine du Plessix Gray -- The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The Little Death / Alan Devoe -- Barrier-Free Design / Emily Linderman -- Endurance / Frank Hurley -- Comforting Thoughts / Calvin Trillin -- Peak Performances: Why Records Fall / Daniel Goleman -- How Flowers Changed the World / Loren Eisley -- Examined Life / Malcolm Gladwell -- The Movie That Changed My Life / Terry McMillan -- The Star / Arthur C. Clarke -- Organ Shortage / Alexander Tabarrok -- Genetic Engineering / Jim F. Soloman -- Physicians Against Landmines -- A Debate About Racism -- I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr -- A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream / Eric Liu -- A Debate about Windmills -- An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod / Robert F Kennedy, Jr -- Cape Wind is Sound for the Sound / Francis Broadhurst -- A Debate about Family -- Stone Soup / Barbara Kingsolver -- Women and the Future of Fatherhood / Barbara Dafoe Whitehead -- A Debate about the Death Penalty -- The Death Penalty / H.L. Mencken -- Execution / Anna Quindlen -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr -- A Match to the Heart / Gretel Ehrlich -- Lars Eighner, "My Daily Dives into the Dumpster" TBD -- The Technology of Medicine / Lewis Thomas -- Using and Documenting Sources -- Student Research Paper.

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