Rhetorical choices : a reader for writers / compiled by] Keith Gilyard, Deborah H. Holdstein, Charles I. Schuster. [print]

The chase Annie Dillard -- The library card Richard Wright -- The bittersweet science Austin Bunn -- Narrative: Ali Elizabeth Alexander -- Mother tongue Amy Tan -- Shooting an elephant George Orwell -- Seven types of ambiguity Shirley Jackson -- Captivated Meredith Small -- Am I blue? / Alice Walker -- Snow Julia Alvarez -- Once more to the lake E.B. White -- Father coming home Sherman Alexie -- On Alabama Ave., Paterson, New Jersey, 1954 Rachel Guido de Vries -- The vision seekers Kira Salak -- The stone horse Barry Lopez -- I want a wife Judy Brady -- Girl Jamaica Kincaid -- Caring for your introvert Jonathan Rauch -- The Holocause Bruno Bettelheim -- Pidgin Lisa Kanae -- The meanings of a word Gloria Naylor -- About men Gretel Ehrlich -- How can we understand their hatred? / Elie Wiesel -- What Helen Keller saw Cynthia Ozick -- If memory doesn't serve Ian Frazier -- Thoughts of an oriental girl Emily Tsao -- The vagaries of taste Diane Ackerman -- Two poems: For a lady I know and Incident Countee Cullen -- The lesson Toni Cade Bambara -- Delusions of grandeur Henry Louis Gates -- The same difference Amy Wang -- What I've learned from men Barbara Ehrenreich -- People like us David Brooks -- Where have all the Lisas gone Peggy Orenstein -- Friends, good friends--and such good friends Judith Viorst -- Pornography Margaret Atwood -- College Pressures William Zinsser -- How to tame a wild tongue Gloria Anzaldua -- Bards of the internet Philip Elmer-DeWitt -- Big and Bad Malcolm Gladwell -- Learning to read and write Frederick Douglass -- To make them stand in fear Kenneth Stampp -- The classroom and the wider culture Fan Shen -- My first conk Malcolm X -- The American way of death Jessica Mitford -- How to say nothing in 500 words Paul Roberts -- Dr. King's refrigerator Charles Johnson -- Grant and Lee: a study in contrasts Bruce Catton -- Two ways to belong in America Bharati Mukherjee -- Wham! Bam! Thanks a bunch! / Jodi Kantor -- Blacks and Jews Cornel West -- Language worlds R.A. Hudson -- Aria Richard Rodriquez -- from 'Tis: a memoir Frank McCourt -- Sex, lies, and conversation Deborah Tannen -- The failure of war Wendell Barry -- Cold comfort Atul Gawande -- A black man ponders his ability to alter public space Brent Staples -- The stereotype trap Sharon Begley -- The Bali Saleng Eric Hansen -- Sister Godzilla Louise Erdrich -- One by one Pauline Arrillaga -- Magic time: observations of a cancer casualty Michael Davitt Bell -- What really scares us David Ropeik -- The conflict over the unusual word William Buckley, Jr. -- The killing game Joy Williams -- Hunting and human values Paul Shephard -- Who killed Benny Parer Norman Cousins -- Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Building plans: what the World Trade Center meant Paul Goldberger -- It's a jungle out there Camille Paglia -- The tyranny of the majority Lani Guinier -- God or gorilla Matthew Chapman.

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