OTHER WORDS: A WRITER'S READER

by David Fleming

Other A Writer's ReaderTable of Contents

Introduction
 
Heather Abel & Emily Chenoweth
Emily & Heather
from The Friend Who Got Away
 
Kathy Acker
Against Ordinary The Language of the Body
from The Last Sex
 
Faith Adiele
Half Sacred, Half Profane
from Meeting An Inward Odyssey
 
Gloria Anzaldúa
The Homeland, Aztlán / El otro México
from Borderlands/La 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 The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
 
Image #2: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
 
Judyth Har-Even
Leaving 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 Reflections on the Future of Wolves in the Northeast
 
John Medeiros
One Sentence
from Gulf Coas t
 
Maja Mikula
Gender and The Political Valency of Lara Croft
from Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
 
Rebekah Nathan
Life in the Dorms
from My Freshman 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 Voices of the Next Feminist Generation
 
Richard Rodriguez
The North American
from Public Discourse in 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 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 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

342 pages, Paperback

First published September 14, 2012