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