The Best American Essays, College Edition Book

Preface. Introduction and Prologue. 1. THE PERSONAL VOICE: IDENTITY, DIVERSITY, SELF-DISCOVERY. Anwar F. Accawi, "The Telephone"; Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Silent Dancing"; Edwidge Danticat, "Westbury Court"; Yusef Komunyakaa, "The Blue Machinery of Summer"; Chang-Rae Lee, "Magical Dinners"; Scott Russell Sanders, "The Inheritance of Tools"; Lauren Slater, "Tripp Lake"; Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue"; Ryan Van Meter, "First"; Christy Vannoy, "A Personal Essay by a Personal Essay"; Jerald Walker, "The Mechanics of Being"; Reshma Memon YaQub, "The Washing" 2. THE ATTENTIVE MIND: OBSERVATION, REFLECTION, INSIGHT. Sue Allison, "Taking a Reading"; Annie Dillard, "The Stunt Pilot"; Brian Doyle, "Joyas Voladoras"; Kitty Burns Florey, "Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog"; Patricia Hampl, "The Dark Art of Description"; Amy Leach, "You Be the Moon"; Ariel Levy, "The Lesbian Bride's Handbook"; Alan Lightman, "The Accidental Universe"; Joyce Carol Oates, "They All Just Went Away"; David Sedaris, "This Old House"; Patricia Smith, "Pearl, Upward"; Gay Talese, "Ali in Havana" 3. THE PUBLIC SPHERE: ADVOCACY, ARGUMENT, CONTROVERSY. Alan M. Dershowitz, "Shouting 'Fire!'"; George Gessert, "An Orgy of Power"; Garret Keizer, "Loaded"; Jamaica Kincaid, "On Seeing England for the First Time"; Michael Lewis, "The Mansion: A Subprime Parable"; Danielle Ofri, "Living Will"; Bridget Potter, "Lucky Girl"; Peter Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty"; Jill McCorkle, "Cuss Time"; John H. Summers, "Gettysburg Regress"; John Edgar Wideman, "Fatheralong"; Edward O. Wilson, "Apocalypse Now".