The writer's presence
Subtitle: a pool of readings
By: edited by Donald McQuade, Robert Atwan
Edition: Eighth Edition ; 2016 MLA update
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 889
ISBN-13: 9781319090081
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: College readers; English language; Problems, exercises; Rhetoric; Report writing
Description: "The Writer's Presence collects the very best readings by great writers, showcasing distinctive voices and clear points of view on a broad range of engaging topics. With selections that span different communities, time periods, levels of difficulty, and fields of study, The Writer's Presence shines a spotlight foremost on writers who establish a strong presence and whose writing will encourage you to explore your own. This book includes readings and assignments you need in order to do your work. You can't pass your course without it." -- back cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Personal writing, exploring our own lives. What is personal writing? ; The joy of reading and writing: Superman and me / Sherman Alexie ; A question of class / Dorothy Allison ; "What's your name, girl?" / Maya Angelou ; Notes of a native son / James Baldwin ; My father's life / Raymond Carver ; Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; A clack of tiny sparks: remembrances of a gay boyhood / Bernard Cooper ; Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass ; The land of no: love in a class-riven America / Andre Dubus III ; Under water / Anne Fadiman ; In the kitchen / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; from Hiroshima diary / Michihicko Hachiya ; Blank slate / Silas Hansen ; On stuttering / Edward Hoagland ; Salvation / Langston Hughes ; Arrival / Ha Jin ; The estrangement/ Jamaica Kincaid ; If you are what you eat, then what am I? / Geeta Kothari ; My two lives / Jhumpa Lahiri ; On being a cripple / Nancy Mairs ; The rake: a few scenes from my childhood / David Mamet ; Home at last / Dinaw Mengestu ; Leave your name at the border / Manuel Muñoz ; Shooting an elephant / George Orwell ; A yard of cloth / Annie Proulx ; Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez ; My speech at West Point / Marjane Satrapi ; Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris ; Sticky fingers / Patti Smith ; Just walk on by: a black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples ; Into the woods ; Cheryl Strayed ; Beauty: when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker ; Scattered inconveniences / Jerald Walker ; Once more to the lake / E. B. White ; Eight simple, short words / Elie Wiesel; title: Expository writing, shaping information. What is expository writing? ; A few too many / Joan Acocella ; What meets the eye / Daniel Akst ; The ugly truth about beauty / Dave Barry ; Analyze, don't summarize / Michael Bérubé ; Our wall / Charles Bowden ; People like us / David Brooks ; The insufficiency of honesty / Stephen L. Carter ; Why women smile / Amy Cunningham ; The Santa Ana / Joan Didion ; This is the life / Annie Dillard ; A writing portfolio / Brian Doyle ; On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner ; A farewell to yarns / Ian Frazier ; What you don't know makes you nervous / Daniel Gilbert ; Small change: why the revolutions will not be tweeted / Malcolm Gladwell ; My visit to Niagara / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; The terminal check / Pico Iyer ; Everything you need to know about writing successfully...in ten minutes / Stephen King ; Our place in the universe / Alan Lightman ; Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln ; Hip-hop planet / James McBride ; The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday ; from Reading Lolita in Tehran / Azar Nafisi ; SAT / Danielle Ofri ; Politics and the English language / George Orwell ; The end of cooking? / Michael Pollan ; Why boys don't play with dolls / Katha Pollitt ; Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser ; The life of images / Charles Simic ; The new greatest generation / Joel Stein ; The death of a moth / Virginia Woolf; title: Argumentative writing, contending with issues. What is argumentative writing? ; Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr ; Will women still need men? / Barbara Ehrenreich ; Let them eat dog / Jonathan Safran Foer ; Against school / John Taylor Gatto ; Believe me, it's torture / Christopher Hitchens ; The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson ; I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. ; Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr. ; Against love / Laura Kipnis ; A moral atmosphere / Bill McKibben ; The trouble with diversity / Walter Benn Michaels ; Get happy / Walter Mosley ; Grant Park victory speech / Barack Obama ; The pitfalls of plastic surgery / Camille Paglia ; Violence vanquished / Steven Pinker ; Ed and Mary do Mars and Venus / Mary Roach ; What isn't for sale? / Michael J. Sandel ; The tyranny of choice / Barry Schwartz ; In the combat zone / Leslie Marmon Silko ; The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer ; The trouble with self-esteem / Lauren Slater ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift ; Consider the lobster / David Foster Wallace ; Fatheralong / John Edgar Wideman ; Stories Hollywood never tells / Howard Zinn; title: The short story, six modern classics. What are short stories? ; This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie ; Girl / Jamaica Kincaid ' Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri ' Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; A&P / John Updike.