Index of authors and titles

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology - Samuel Cohen 2017


Index of authors and titles

· Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, To My One Love, 17

· Alexie, Sherman, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, 22

· Allegory of the Cave, The (Plato), 280

· Anzaldúa, Gloria, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, 27

· Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood (Rodriguez), 289

· Ascher, Barbara Lazear, On Compassion, 40

· Baldwin, James, Notes of a Native Son, 44

· Boswell, James, On War, 66

· Buckley, William F., Jr., Why Don’t We Complain?, 72

· Burdick, Alan, The Truth about Invasive Species, 79

· Carr, Nicholas, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, 87

· Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), 369

· Coates, Ta-Nehisi, The Paranoid Style of American Policing, 99

· Cofer, Judith Ortiz, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María, 103

· Declaration of Independence, The (Jefferson), 193

· Defoe, Daniel, The Education of Women, 111

· Didion, Joan, On Keeping a Notebook, 116

· Douglass, Frederick, Learning to Read and Write, 125

· Doyle, Brian, Joyas Voladores, 132

· Education of Women, The (Defoe), 111

· Ehrenreich, Barbara, Serving in Florida, 136

· Eighner, Lars, On Dumpster Diving, 146

· Ericsson, Stephanie, The Ways We Lie, 159

· Feet in Smoke (Sullivan), 344

· Fourth of July, The (Lorde), 221

· Gladwell, Malcolm, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, 169

· Henríquez, Cristina, Lunch, 182

· How It Feels to Be Colored Me (Hurston), 188

· How to Tame a Wild Tongue (Anzaldúa), 27

· Hughes, Langston, Salvation, 185

· Hurston, Zora Neale, How It Feels to Be Colored Me, 188

· “I Just Wanna Be Average” (Rose), 313

· In the Name of Love (Tokumitsu), 396

· Is Google Making Us Stupid? (Carr), 87

· Jefferson, Thomas, The Declaration of Independence, 193

· Joy, Camden, Surviving Sinatra, 202

· Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, The (Alexie), 22

· Joyas Voladores (Doyle), 132

· Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space (Staples), 339

· Kincaid, Jamaica, The Ugly Tourist, 206

· King, Stephen, Reading to Write, 210

· Klinkenborg, Verlyn, Our Vanishing Night, 216

· Learning to Read (Malcolm X), 240

· Learning to Read and Write (Douglass), 125

· Lorde, Audre, The Fourth of July, 221

· Loser Edit, The (Whitehead), 412

· Lunch (Henríquez), 182

· Mairs, Nancy, On Being a Cripple, 226

· Malcolm X, Learning to Read, 240

· McPhee, John, The Search for Marvin Gardens, 250

· Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris), 333

· Millet, Lydia, Victor’s Hall, 263

· Modest Proposal, A (Swift), 353

· Mother Tongue (Tan), 362

· Mukherjee, Bharati, Two Ways to Belong in America, 267

· My Periodic Table (Sacks), 328

· Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María, The (Cofer), 103

· Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 44

· On Being a Cripple (Mairs), 226

· On Compassion (Ascher), 40

· On Dumpster Diving (Eighner), 146

· On Keeping a Notebook (Didion), 116

· On War (Boswell), 66

· Once More to the Lake (White), 404

· Our Vanishing Night (Klinkenborg), 216

· Orwell, George, Shooting an Elephant, 272

· Paranoid Style of American Policing, The (Coates), 99

· Plato, The Allegory of the Cave, 280

· Pre-Game (Zirin), 424

· Professions for Women (Woolf), 417

· Reading to Write (King), 210

· Rodriguez, Richard, Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood, 289

· Rose, Mike, “I Just Wanna Be Average,” 313

· Sacks, Oliver, My Periodic Table, 328

· Salvation (Hughes), 185

· Search for Marvin Gardens, The (McPhee), 250

· Sedaris, David, Me Talk Pretty One Day, 333

· Serving in Florida (Ehrenreich), 136

· Shooting an Elephant (Orwell), 272

· Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted (Gladwell), 169

· Staples, Brent, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space, 339

· Subjunctive Mood, The (Thurber), 392

· Sullivan, John Jeremiah, Feet in Smoke, 344

· Surviving Sinatra (Joy), 202

· Swift, Jonathan, A Modest Proposal, 353

· Tan, Amy, Mother Tongue, 362

· Thoreau, Henry David, Civil Disobedience, 362

· Thurber, James, The Subjunctive Mood, 392

· Tokumitsu, Miya, In the Name of Love, 396

· To My One Love (Adichie), 17

· Truth about Invasive Species, The (Burdick), 79

· Two Ways to Belong in America (Mukherjee), 267

· Ugly Tourist, The (Kincaid), 206

· Victor’s Hall (Millet), 263

· Ways We Lie, The (Ericsson), 159

· White, E. B., Once More to the Lake, 404

· Whitehead, Colson, The Loser Edit, 412

· Why Don’t We Complain? (Buckley), 72

· Woolf, Virginia, Professions for Women, 417

· Zirin, Dave, Pre-Game, 424

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