50 Essays: A Portable Anthology - Samuel Cohen 2017

Acknowledgments

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “To My One Love,” originally titled “Operation” by Chimamanda Adichie, originally published in Granta 99, Autumn 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Chimamanda Adichie, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

Sherman Alexie, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” from The Most Wonderful Books, edited by Michael Dorris and Emilie Buchwald. Copyright © 1997 by Sherman Alexie. Published by Milkweed Editions. Reprinted with permission of Nancy Stauffer Associates on behalf of the author.

Gloria Anzaldúa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” From Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Copyright © 1987, 1999, 2007, 2012 by Gloria Anzaldúa. Reprinted permission of Aunt Lute Books.

Barbara Lazear Ascher, “On Compassion,” from The Habit of Loving by Barbara Lazear Ascher. Copyright © 1986, 1987, 1989 by Barbara Lazear Ascher. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission.

James Baldwin, excerpt from Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin. Copyright © 1955, renewed 1983, by James Baldwin. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

William F. Buckley Jr., “Why Don’t We Complain?” by William F. Buckley Jr. Copyright © 1960, 2004 by William F. Buckley Jr. From Miles Gone By. Reprinted by permission of the Wallace Literary Agency, Inc.

Alan Burdick, “The Truth about Invasive Species” from Discover, May 1, 2005 © 2005 Discover Media. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of this Content without express written permission is prohibited.

Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” from Atlantic Monthly July/August. © 2008 The Atlantic Media Co., as first published in The Atlantic Magazine. All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Paranoid Style of American Policing,” © 2015 The Atlantic Media Co. as first published in The Atlantic Magazine. All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María,” from The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Copyright © 1993 by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Reprinted by permission of the University of Georgia Press.

Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook,” from SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM by Joan Didion. Copyright © 1966, 1968, renewed 1996 by Joan Didion. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Brian Doyle, “Joyas Voladores.” Reprinted from The American Scholar, Volume 73, No. 4, Autumn 2004. Copyright © 2004 by the author.

Barbara Ehrenreich, “Serving in Florida,” from the book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Copyright © 2001 by Barbara Ehrenreich. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving,” an excerpt from Travels with Lizbeth, © 1993 by Lars Eighner. Reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie,” Copyright © 1992 by Stephanie Ericsson. Originally published by The Utne Reader. Reprinted by permission of Dunham Literary, Inc. as agent for the author.

Malcolm Gladwell, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” New Yorker Magazine, October 4, 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Malcolm Gladwell. Reprinted by permission.

Cristina Henríquez, “Lunch: Dinner in Panama,” The New Yorker, Family Dinner, September 3, 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Langston Hughes, “Salvation” from THE BIG SEA by Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1940 by Langston Hughes. Copyright renewed 1968 by Arna Bontemps and George Houston Bass. Reprinted by permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Camden Joy, “Surviving Sinatra” from Lost Joy by Camden Joy, published by Verse Chorus Press, © 2002, 2015. Reprinted by permission.

Jamaica Kincaid, “The Ugly Tourist,” excerpt from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. Copyright © 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Stephen King, “Reading to Write.” Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. Copyright © 2000 by Stephen King. All rights reserved.

Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Our Vanishing Night: Most City Skies Have Become Virtually Empty of Stars.” National Geographic Magazine. National Geographic Society. Nov. 2008.

Audre Lorde, “The Fourth of July,” from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name — published by Crossing Press. Copyright © 1982, 2006 by Audre Lorde. Used herewith by permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency.

Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple,” from Plaintext by Nancy Mairs. Copyright © 1986 by The Arizona Board of Regents. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press.

Malcolm X, “Learning to Read” from THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, as told to Alex Haley, copyright © 1964 by Alex Haley and Malcolm X. Copyright © 1965 by Alex Haley and Betty Shabazz. Used by permission of Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission.

John McPhee, “The Search for Marvin Gardens” from PIECES OF THE FRAME by John McPhee. Copyright © 1975, renewed 2003 by John McPhee. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Lydia Millet, “Victor’s Hall” originally published under the title “Stuffed with an Agenda.” From The New York Times, April 5, 2015 © 2015 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of this Content without express written permission is prohibited.

Bharati Mukherjee, “Two Ways to Belong to America,” by Bharati Mukherjee. Copyright © 1996 by Bharati Mukherjee. Originally published in The New York Times. Reprinted by permission of the author.

George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant,” from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays by George Orwell. Copyright © 1946 by Sonia Brownell Orwell; copyright © renewed 1974 by Sonia Orwell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Richard Rodriguez, “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood.” From Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez. Reprinted by permission of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc. Copyright © 1982 by Richard Rodriguez.

Mike Rose, “’I Just Wanna Be Average.’” Reprinted with the permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America’s Underprepared by Mike Rose. Copyright © 1989 by Mike Rose. All rights reserved.

Oliver Sacks, “My Periodic Table,” by Oliver Sacks, originally published in The New York Times, currently collected in GRATITUDE. Copyright © 2015 by Oliver Sacks, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

David Sedaris, “Me Talk Pretty One Day.” First published in Esquire and reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Copyright © 1999 by David Sedaris.

Brent Staples, “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space.” Copyright © 1986 by Brent Staples. Reprinted by permission of the author.

John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Feet in Smoke” from Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Copyright © 2011 by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue,” Copyright © 1989 by Amy Tan. First appeared in The Threepenny Review. Reprinted by permission of the author and Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.

James Thurber, “The Subjunctive Mood.” Originally titled “Our Own Modern English Usage,” The New Yorker Magazine (August 17, 1929). © Condé Nast. Used by permission of Condé Nast.

Miya Tokumitsu, “In the Name of Love” by Miya Tokumitsu, Jacobin Magazine, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/. Reprinted by permission.

E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake,” from One Man’s Meat, by E. B. White. Copyright © 1941 by E. B. White. Reprinted by permission of Tilbury House, Publishers and ICM Partners.

Colson Whitehead, “The Loser Edit,” originally published under the title “Life without Pity” from The New York Times, March 8, 2015 © 2015 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of this Content without express written permission is prohibited.

Dave Zirin, excerpt from Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. Copyright © 2013 by Dave Zirin. Reprinted by permission of The New Press, www.thenewpress.com.