Fields of Reading Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

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Maya Angelou. “Graduation.” From I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Copyright � 1969 by Maya Angelou. Reprinted with the permission of Random House, Inc.

W. H. Auden. “The Unknown Citizen.” From W.H. Auden Collected Poems edited by Edward Mendelson. Copyright � 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted with the permission of Random House, Inc.

James Baldwin. “If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me What Is.” From The New York Times, July 29, 1979, Op-Ed page. Copyright � 1979 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted with permission.

John Berger. “Hiroshima.” From The Sense of Sight by John Berger. Copyright � 1985 by John Berger. Reprinted with the permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Christina Boufis. “Teaching Literature at the County Jail.” Originally published in The Common Review 1, No. 1. Copyright � 1920. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Gwendolyn Brooks. “We Real Cool.” From Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks. Copyright
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Michael H. Brown. “Love Canal and the Poisoning of America.” From Laying Waste: Love Canal and the Poisoning of America by Michael H. Brown. Copyright � 1979, 1980 by Michael H. Brown. Reprinted with the permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Judith Ortiz Cofer. “The Story of My Body.” From The Latin Deli: Prose & Poetry by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Copyright � 1993 by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Reprinted with the permission of University of Georgia Press.

Amanda Coyne. “The Long Goodbye: Mother's Day in Federal Prison.” From the May 1997 issue of Harper's Magazine. Copyright � 1997 by Harper's Magazine. Reprinted by special permission. All rights reserved.

Antonio Damasio. “How the Brain Creates the Mind.” From Scientific American 12,
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Emily Dickinson. “Because I could not stop for Death.” From The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas Johnson. Copyright � 1951, 1955, 1979 by the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted with the permission of The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Joan Didion. “On Keeping a Notebook.” From Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion. Copyright � 1966, 1968 by Joan Didion. Reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.

Annie Dillard. “Lenses.” From Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard. Copyright
� 1982 by Annie Dillard. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Barbara Ehrenreich. Excerpt from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Copyright � 1999 by Barbara Ehrenreich. Reprinted with the permission of International Creative Management, Inc.

Anne Frank. “At Home, At School, In Hiding.” From The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, edited by Otto M. Frank and Murjam Pressler and translated by Susan Massotty. Translation � 1995 by Doubleday. Reprinted with the permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

Jonathan Franzen. “Sifting the Ashes.” From The New Yorker, May 13, 1996, pp. 40-48. Copyright � 1996 by Jonathan Franzen. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Robert Frost. “Mending Wall.” From The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright � 1923, 1928 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Renewed � 1951, 1956 by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company LLC.

Atul Gawande. “The Crimson Tide.” From The New Yorker, February 12, 2001. Copyright � 2001 by Atul Gawande. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Robert Gilbert. “Understanding Ovation.” Originally published by Harper's Magazine, October 2001. Copyright � 2001 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Malcolm Gladwell. “The Naked Face.” From The New Yorker, August 5, 2002. Copyright
� 2002 by Malcolm Gladwell. “The Art of Failure.” From The New Yorker, August 21/28, 2000. Copyright � 2000 by Malcolm Gladwell. Both reprinted with the permission of the author.

Jane Goodall. “First Observations.” From In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall. Copyright � 1971 by Hugo and Jane Van Lawick-Goodall. Reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Adam Gopnik. “The City and the Pillars.” From The New Yorker, September 24, 2001. Copyright � 2001 by Adam Gopnik. Reprinted with permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

Vivian Gornick. “A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism.” From The New York Times, May 6, 2002. Copyright � 2002 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted with permission. “The Catskills Remembered.” From Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick. Copyright � 1996 by Vivian Gornick. Reprinted with the permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

Stephen Jay Gould. “Women's Brains.” From The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould. Copyright � 1980 by Stephen Jay Gould. Reprinted with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Gary Greenberg. “As Good as Dead.” From The New Yorker, August 13, 2001, pp. 36-41. Copyright � 2001 by Gary Greenberg. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Gordon Grice. “A Slice of Life.” Originally published in The New Yorker, July 30, 2001, pp. 36-41. Copyright � 2001 by Gordon Grice. Reprinted with permission of the author.

Patricia Hampl. “Review of The Diary of Anne Frank.” Copyright � 1995 by Patricia Hampl. “Reviewing Anne Frank.” Copyright � 1997 by Patricia Hampl. Reprinted by permission of the author and Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc.

Zo� Tracy Hardy. “What Did You Do In the War, Daddy? A Flashback to August 1945.” Originally published in Ms., August 1985.

Stephen W. Hawking. “Our Picture of the Universe.” From A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking. Copyright � 1988 by Stephen W. Hawking. Reprinted with the permission of Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

John Hersey. “Hatsuyo Nakamura” from Hiroshima by John Hersey. Copyright � 1946, 1985 by John Hersey. Copyright � renewed 1973 by John Hersey. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Langston Hughes. “Theme for English B.” From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Arnold Rampersad and David Rossel. Copyright � 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Randall Jarrell. “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.” From The Complete Poems by Randall Jarrell. Copyright � 1945, 1969 by Mrs. Randall Jarrell. Reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC.

James Jeans. “Why the Sky Is Blue.” From The Stars in Their Courses by James Jeans. Copyright � 1931 by James Jeans. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

Patrik Jonsson. “Edgy First College Assignment: Study the Koran.” From The Christian Science Monitor, July 30, 2002. Copyright � 2002 by Patrik Jonsson. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Michael Kamber. “Toil and Temptation.” Originally published in The Village Voice, April 24, 2001. Copyright � 2001 by Michael Kamber. Reprinted with permission of the author.

Garrett Keizer. “Why We Hate Teachers.” From Harper's Magazine, September 2001. Copyright � 2001 by Garrett Keizer. Reprinted with permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

Martin Luther King Jr. “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence.” From Fellowship, September 1, 1958 by Martin Luther King Jr. Copyright � 1958 by Martin Luther King Jr. Copyright renewed 1986 by Coretta Scott King. “A Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Copyright � 1963 by Martin Luther King Jr. Copyright renewed 1991 by Coretta Scott King. Reprinted with the permission of The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., c/o Writers House, Inc., as agents for the proprietors.

Verlyn Klinkenberg. “The Best Clock in the World.” From Discover, June 2000 21, No. 6. Copyright � 2000 by Verlyn Klinkenberg. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. “On the Fear of Death.” From On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Copyright � 1969 by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group.

Marcus Laffey. “Inside Dope.” From Blue Blood. Originally from The New Yorker, February 1, 1999, pp. 29-32. Copyright � 2003 by Marcus Laffey. Reprinted with the permission of Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

William L. Laurence. “Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by a Flight Member.” From The New York Times, September 9, 1945. Copyright � 1945 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted with permission.

Philip Levine. “What Work Is.” From What Work Is: Poems by Philip Levine. Copyright � 1992 by Philip Levine. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Nancy Mairs. Excerpt from Carnal Acts by Nancy Mairs. Copyright � 1990 by Nancy Mairs. Reprinted with the permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

Emily Martin. “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.” From Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16, no. 3, p. 501. Copyright � 1991 by The University of Chicago Press. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher and the author.

Louis Menand. “Honest, Decent, Wrong.” From The New Yorker, January 27, 2003. Copyright � 2003 by Louis Menand. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

Stanley Milgram. “Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority.” From Human Relations 18, No. 1 (1965). Copyright � 1972 by Stanley Milgram. Reprinted with permission. All rights controlled by Alexandra Milgram, Literary Executor.

C. Wright Mills. “A White Collar Works.” (Chapter 10, pp. 215-238) from White Collar: The American Middle Classes by C. Wright Mills. Copyright � 1951 by C. Wright Mills. Reprinted with the permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.

N. Scott Momaday. “The Way to Rainy Mountain.” From The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday. Originally published in The Reporter, January 26, 1967. Copyright � 1969 by N. Scott Momaday. Reprinted with the permission of The University of New Mexico Press.

Monica M. Moore. “Nonverbal Courtship in Women: Context and Consequences” from Ethology and Sociobiology 6, No. 4 (1995). Copyright � 1995 by Monica M. Moore. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Joyce Carol Oates. “Life, Vigor, Fire: The Watercolors of Winslow Homer.” From Woman Writer by Joyce Carol Oates. Copyright � 1988 by Joyce Carol Oates. Reprinted with the permission of Dutton, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

George Orwell. “Shooting an Elephant” and “Politics and the English Language.” From Shooting an Elephant and Other Stories by George Orwell. Copyright � 1950 by Sonia Brownell Orwell and renewed � 1978 by Sonia Pitt-Rivers. Reprinted with the permission of Harcourt, Inc. and Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell and Secker & Warburg Limited.

Cynthia Ozick. “The Impious Impatience of Job.” From Quarrel and Quandary by Cynthia Ozick. Copyright � 2000 by Cynthia Ozick. Originally published in The American Scholar 67 (1998). Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Pablo Picasso. “A Statement by Picasso.” From Picasso On Art, by Alfred J. Barr, Jr. Copyright � 1974 by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Reprinted by permission.

Sylvia Plath. “Metaphors.” From The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes. Copyright � 1957 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd.

Phillip Richards. “There's No Room for You There: Black Students and Prestigious Colleges.” Originally titled “Facing Races” from The Chronicle Review, September 13, 2002. Copyright � 2002 by Phillip Richards. Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Phyllis Rose. “Tools of Torture: An Essay on Beauty and Pain.” From The Atlantic Monthly, October 1986. Copyright � 1986 by Phyllis Rose. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

Oliver Sacks. Excerpt from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. Copyright � 1970, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985 by Oliver Sacks. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group.

Carl Sagan. “Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt.” From Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science by Carol Sagan. Copyright � 1979 by Carl Sagan. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Carl Sagan.

Scott Russell Sanders. “Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.” From Writing from the Center by Scott Russell Sanders. Copyright � 1995 by Scott Russell Sanders. Reprinted with the permission of Scott Russell Sanders.

Eric Schlosser. “Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good.” From Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, January 2001. Excerpted and reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Eric Schlosser and Jon Lowenstein. “Making It Work.” From Mother Jones, September/ October 2002, pp. 68-73. Copyright � 2002 by Eric Schlosser. Reprinted with the permission of Eric Schlosser.

Serge Schmemann. “U.S. Attacked; Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon in Day of Terror: President Vows to Exact Punishment for Evil.” From The New York Times, September 12, 2001, A-1. Copyright � 2001 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted with permission.

Richard Selzer. “The Discus Thrower.” From Confessions of a Knife by Richard Selzer. Copyright � 1979 by David Goldman and Janet Selzer, Trustees. “A Mask on the Face of Death.” From Life, 1988, Copyright � 1987 by Richard Selzer. Reprinted with the permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. Literary Agency.

Theodore R. Sizer. “What High School Is.” From Horace's Compromise by Theodore
R. Sizer. Copyright � 1984 by Theodore R. Sizer. Reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Mark Strand. “Pot Roast.” From Selected Poems by Mark Strand. Copyright � 1979, 1980 by Mark Strand. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Andrew Sullivan. “What's So Bad About Hate?” From the New York Times Magazine, September 26, 1999. Copyright � 1999, 2000 by Andrew Sullivan. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.

Amy Tan. “Mother Tongue.” Originally published as “Under Western Eyes.” From The Threepenny Review, 1990. Copyright � 1990 by Amy Tan. Reprinted with the permission of the author and Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.

Barbara Tuchman. “This is the End of the World: The Black Death.” From A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. Copyright � 1978 by Barbara W. Tuchman. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Alice Walker. “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self.” From In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker. Copyright � 1983 by Alice Walker. Reprinted with the permission of Harcourt, Inc.

Robert A. Weinberg. “Of Clones and Clowns.” Originally published in Atlantic Monthly, June 2002, pp. 54-59. Copyright � 2002 by Robert A. Weinberg. Reprinted with the permission of the author.