The Winchester reader / edited by Donald McQuade, Robert Atwan.

Contents
Part one: The first-person singular
1. 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

2. 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

3. Moments of recognition : James Joyce, Michael Dorris, Arnold Van Gennep
Shooting an elephant / George Orwell
Salvation / Langston Hughes
A & P [story] / John Updike

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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
7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Crises of adolescence : Margaret Mead, Gail Sheehy, Laurence Steinberg
From Teenagers in crisis / David Elkind
Shopping [story] / Joyce Carol Oates


11. A national obsession : Neil Postman, Pauline Kael, Maurine Doerken, Daniel J. Boorstin
TV addition / Marie Winn
Crack and the box / Pete Hamill


12. 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
13. 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


14. 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


15. 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


16. 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


17. 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
18. 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

19. 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

20. Fathers : Robert Frost, Mary-Lou Weisman, Alice Walker
Discovery of a father / Sherwood Anderson
Bridging [story] / Max Apple
Fathering [story] / Bharati Mukherjee


21. 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


22. Resistance to stereotypes : Rita Mae Brown, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Paul Theroux
Thoughts on peace in an air raid / Virginia Woolf
I want a wife / Judy Brady
Mr. President / Bob Greene


23. Conflicting loyalties : Olga Silverstein, Vivian Gornick, Terry Allen Kupers
Waiting for a taxi / June Jordan
Where I come from is like this / Paula Gunn Allen
The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders


Part five : enduring issues
24. Declarations of independence : John Locke, Barbara C. Jordan, Mary Wollstonecraft
The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of independence of the democratioc republic of Viet-Nam / Ho Chi Minh
Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.


25. The debate on abortion : Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Anna Quindlen, Ernest Hemingway, Florynce C. Kennedy
A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson
What I saw at the abortion / Richard Selzer
Putting women back into the abortion debate / Ellen Willis


26. Freedom of expression : Michel de Montaigne, Carl L. Becker, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor
The indispensable opposition / Walter Lippmann
2 live crew, decoded / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Let's put pornography back in the closet / Susan Brownmiller

27. Denigrating the species / H.L. Mencken, Taylor Caldwell, Thomas Hobbes
A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift
Confession of faith / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The damned human race / Mark Twain

28. Visions of the land : Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph), Noel Perrin, Brigid Brophy
From The Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau
The journey's end / Wendell Berry
A first American views his land / N. Scott Momaday


29. Environmental action : Joy Williams, Aldo Leopold, J.E. Lovelock
Natural man / Lewis Thomas
Ecofeminism : our roots and flowering / Charlene Spretnak
Women, home, and community : the struggle in an urban environment


Part six : the power of language
30. The languages of home : Barbara Mellix, Richard Rodriguez, An-Thu Quang Nguyen, Edmund Wilson
The language of home / John Edgar Wideman
From the poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall
From A song for a barbarian reed pipe / Maxine Hong Kingston
The loudest voice [story] / Grace Paley


31. Bilingualism : Tina Bakka, S.I. Hayakawa, Oscar Hijuelos
Toward an American language / Richard Rodriguez
Viva bilingualism / James Fallows


32. Language and politics : Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, James Baldwin
Politics and the English language / George Orwell
Words on words / Vaclav Havel
Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan / June Jordan


33. The power of metaphor : Aristotle, Jacob Bronowski, Cynthia Ozick, Judy Ruiz
From Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
From AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag


34. Fighting words : Barbara Lawrence, Charles R. Lawrence, E. Digby Baltzell
Words with built-in judgments / S.I. Hayakawa
A question of language / Gloria Naylor
The WASP sting / Anne Roiphe


Part seven : the pleasures of the mind
35. Sight into insight : Helen Keller, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Hoggart
Seeing / Annie Dillard
The stone horse / Barry Lopez
The loss of the creature / Walker Percy


36. The unexpected universe : Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Carl Sandburg
Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould
The star thrower / Loren Eiseley
Much ado about nothing / K.C. Cole


37.Understanding horror : Stephen King, William James, Richard Wright
The tell-tale heart [story] / Edgar Allan Poe
In pursuit of pure horror / Harper's Magazine


38. Origins : Robert Graves, Barbara C. Sproul, Isaac Bashevis Singer
From Symposium / Plato
Chapters one, two, and three / Genesis
The time when there were no people on the earth plain / Bering Strait Eskimo creation myth


39. The search for truth : Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Woody Allen
Idols of the mind / Francis Bacon
Stripping the mind of its beliefs / Rene Descartes
Emptiness / Shunryu Suzuki


40. Why we write : George Orwell, Toni Cade Bambara, Annie Dillard
Why it write / Joan Didion / Nurturing resistance / Bernice Johnson Reagon
I write for revenge against reality / Francine du Plessiz Gray
B. Traven is alive and well in Cuernavaca [story] / Rudolfo A. Anaya


41. The act of reading : Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Vladimir Nabokov, Edna Buchanan
From Black boy / Richard Wright --
A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty --
Four kinds of reading / Donald Hall --
The art of reading / Lin Yutang --
The writers.

Includes index : p. 1001 - 1006