Title: Experiencing Reading
Description: Incident —Countee Cullen 5		
Excerpt from The History of Art —H. W. Janson 11	
Don't let that horse/eat that violin —Lawrence Ferlinghetti 11	
The Upturned Face —Stephen Crane 14	
How to Defuse the Population Bomb—Robert S. McNamara zz	
Population: The Uninvited Guest—Eugene Linden 30	
Excerpt from My Lord, What a Morning —Marian Anderson 34	
Parent and Child: What's behind spiked hair and pierced ears—Lawrence Kutner 37	
Language and the Lunatic Fringe —Doris Lessing 40	
Excerpt from Mr. Godolphin—Martha Sullivan	
Research in Brief: Flight of the Bumblebee —Mary Jones 48	
How a New England Legend Came to Be —Alan Ferguson 50	
Maintaining the Organic Lawn 51	
Village of Snake Charmers Sees Hard Times —Barbara Crossette 52	
Assault Weapons Aren't 'the Problem —Gary Kleck 54	
Our Two-Sided Brain —John Chaffee 65
Stars —Sara Teasdale 80	
Excerpt from Tarzan of the Apes—Edgar Rice Burroughs 91		
The Waning Moon—Percy Bysshe Shelley 103	
Hagar the Horrible—Dik Browne 103	
The First Tastes of Vintage '93—Bryan Miller 104	
'80s-Babble: Untidy Treasure —Stefan Kanfer 105	
Dermatitis —Samuel M. Bluefarb, M.D. 117	
A Brief History of Exercise—Victoria Roberts 143	
[The Story of an Hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) —Kate Chopin 177	
I'm Your Horse in the Night—Luisa Valenzuela 183	
Appointment in Samarra—W. Somerset Maugham 191	
Excerpt from Elmira—Richard Brautigan 197	
Excerpt from [Fahrenheit 451](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL103200W)—Ray Bradbury 203	
Chains 1942—Fanny Tillman Trueherz and Sandra Brown 209	
Jack Luggage —William McGreevy 221	
Girls of Summer —Marie Brenner 229	
Death in the Orchard—Edward Brown 235	
Excerpt from "No Name Woman" in The Woman Warrior—Maxine Hong Kingston 241	
A Rough Ride—John Marchese 247	
Marian Anderson Is Dead at 96; Singer Shattered Racial Barriers —Allan Kozinn 257	
300 People of Letters Come To Pulitzer's Birthday Party—James Barron 265	
How to Assay an Essay —Carmen Collins 283	
Hand, Eye, Brain: Some "Basics" in the Writing Process—Janet Emig 289	
Seeing and Imagining: Clues to the Workings Of the Mind's Eye—Sandra Blakeslee 295	
Linguists Debate Study Classifying Language As Innate Human Skill —Gina Kolata 305	
The Many Lives and Tricks of 9 —Pico Iyer 313	
Cross Out a Landmark on the Chinatown Tour—Michael T. Kaufman 319	
Dollie And Johnnie—William Safire 325	
Into the Sunshine and Another Spring—John A. Gould 331	
Language of Early Americans is Deciphered —John Noble Wilford 337	
In Praise of the Humble Comma—Pico lyer 345	
The 30•Second Spot Quiz —Hugh Rank 362	
The Communication Collapse—Norman Cousins 371	
Appearances Are Destructive—Mark Mathabane 377	
Voters Assailed by Unfair Persuasion—Daniel Goleman 383	
When Movies Ruled Our Lives—Theodore Roszak 399	
Hue and Cry—Barbara Flanagan 407
Subjects: reading, developmental reading, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfillment, meaning of love, short story
Places: Mallard residence
People: Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards
Time periods: 19th century