75 Readings: An Anthology Book

	Thematic Contents
	Preface
Ch. 1	Narration	1
	A Hanging	1
	Salvation	6
	Grandmother's Victory	9
	No Name Woman	14
	The Stunt Pilot	27
	The Day the Fire Came	40
	Landscape and Narrative	45
Ch. 2	Description	53
	Where the World Began	53
	The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador	59
	Fifth Avenue, Uptown	62
	The Death of the Moth	65
	The Way to Rainy Mountain	68
	Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair	73
	My Father	78
	Easter in Sicily	86
Ch. 3	Process	95
	The Spider and the Wasp	95
	How to Cook a Carp	100
	Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain	104
	Writing Drafts	113
	The Rules of the Game: Rodeo	117
	Honey Harvest	126
	How to Paint a Fresco	131
Ch. 4	Definition	134
	Beauty	134
	What Is Poverty?	137
	Faith of the Father	142
	Erotica and Pornography	147
	Good Souls	152
	Fire in the Sky	157
	Stop Murdering the Language	159
Ch. 5	Division and Classification	163
	Thinking as a Hobby	163
	The Climythology of America	171
	Predictable Crises of Adulthood	179
	Why Nothing Is "Wrong" Anymore	188
	Cinematypes	191
	Growing Up Asian in America	194
	The Truth About Lying	203
Ch. 6	Comparison and Contrast	210
	Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	210
	My Brother Shaman	214
	Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers	218
	Two Views of the Mississippi	230
	The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life	232
	Neat People vs. Sloppy People	234
	At the Mercy of the Cure	237
	Discordant Fruit	241
Ch. 7	Illustration	247
	Why Don't We Complain?	247
	Does America Still Exist?	253
	A Few Kind Words for Superstition	257
	The Patterns of Eating	260
	The Anthropology of Manners	265
	Distancing the Homeless	274
	On a Greek Holiday	288
Ch. 8	Cause and Effect	296
	How Do You Know It's Good?	296
	Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy	303
	My Wood	307
	Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies	310
	White Guilt	313
	Where Have All the Parents Gone?	322
	If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably	330
	Nubian Diet Revealed at Last	338
Ch. 9	Analogy	342
	The Myth of the Cave	342
	The Myth of Sisyphus	346
	"But a Watch in the Night": A Scientific Fable	350
	Body Ritual Among the Nacirema	356
	The Cosmic Prison	363
	Shouting "Fire!"	366
	Am I Blue?	372
	Gawk Shows	376
Ch. 10	Argument	382
	A Modest Proposal	382
	The Great Person-Hole Cover Debate: A Modest Proposal for Anyone Who Thinks the Word "He" Is Just Plain Easier ...	391
	Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You	393
	Should This Student Have Been Expelled?	396
	I Have a Dream	404
	Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs	409
	A Step Back to the Workhouse?	418
	Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor	426
	Permissions Acknowledgments	434
	Index of Authors and Titles	440