About the Book
Table of Contents:
Introduction. 1. The Corps, Henry Allen. 2. Sex, Jennifer Allen. 3. Infidelity, Barbara Lazear Ascher. 4. Un Nintended Benefits, Commencement, Dave Barry. 5. Stalin, Andrei Codrescu. 6. Silent Dancing, Judith Ortiz Cofer. 7. A Newspaper We Can Do Without, Richard Cohen. 8. Rolling into the '80s, Sara Davidson. 9. Write Till You Drop, Annie Dillard. 10. "So Long 4 ever," Elissa Ely. 11. A Few Words About Breasts: Shaping Up Absurd, Nora Ephron. 12. Handicapped, Judy Foreman. 13. Bureaucracy/2, Bureaucracy/3, Eduardo Galeano. 14. 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police, Martin Gansberg. 15. Canon Confidential: A Sam Slade Caper, Henry Louis Gates. 16. Obsessions, Natalie Goldberg. 17. Dick and Jane Play Tennis, Ellen Goodman. 18. Rating the Kids, Ellen Goodman. 19. Real Foes, False Foes, Ellen Goodman. 20. On Free Speech, Lois Gould. 21. The Streak of Streaks, Stephen J. Gould. 22. Hello, CIA, Paul H. Harasim. 23. Girl, Jamaica Kincaid. 24. I Have A Dream, Martin Luther King. 25. Reunion, Maxine Hong Kingston. 26. The Death of a Young Man, Susan Landgraf. 27. Achievement Test, Lewis H. Lapham. 28. The Sound of Music: Enough Already, Fran Lebowitz. 29. The Case for Short Words, Richard Lederer. 30. A House and Its Memories, Alan Lupo. 31. On Being a Cripple, Nancy Mairs. 32. On Not Liking Sex, Nancy Mairs. 33. It Hurts to Be in Love, Andrew Merton. 34. What a Freshman Needs to Know, Andrew Merton. 35. Obachan, Gail Y. Miyasaki. 36. On Wearing the Chador, A.G. Mojtabai. 37. Three Days and a Question, Grace Paley. 38. Clown, Anna Quindlen. 39. High Heels, Caryl Rivers. 40. A Mask on the Face of Death, Richard Selzer. 41. The Specimen Collectors, Richard Selzer. 42. Talking AIDS to Death, Randy Shilts. 43. Reading Philosophy at Night, Charles Simic. 44. The Big A, Harry Stein. 45. On Becoming Mr. Ethics, Harry Stein. 46. Uncommon Decency, Harry Stein. 47. A Death in the Family, Cynthia Vann. 48. Drugs, Gore Vidal. 49. Choices, Patricia Volk. 50. The First Amendment, Kurt Vonnegut. 51. Introduction to Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut. 52. Right to Life: What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman? Alice Walker. 53. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp, Joy Williams. 54. New England Voices, Thomas Williams. 55. Fresh Crayolas: A Busy First Day in Kindergarten, Michael Winerip.
