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Tables of Contents for A Closer Look
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Introduction: A Closer Look at A Closer Look
1
1
Connecting Reading and Writing
2
2
Understanding Rhetorical Choices
4
1
A Brief History of the Essay
5
2
The Contemporary Essay
7
1
The Structure of A Closer Look
8
3
THE WRITERS AND THEIR ESSAYS
11
742
Andre Aciman
13
28
``A Literary Pilgrim Progresses to the Past''
15
4
``The Capital of Memory''
19
10
``A Late Lunch''
29
3
``Shadow Cities''
32
9
Rick Bass
41
36
``Without Safety: Writing Nonfiction''
43
8
``On Willow Creek''
51
12
``Why I Hunt: A Predator's Meditation''
63
3
``Thunder and Lightning''
66
11
Joan Didion
77
30
``Why I Write''
79
5
``The Women's Movement''
84
6
``In Bogota''
90
7
``Girl of the Golden West''
97
10
Annie Dillard
107
40
From The Writing Life ``Chapter One'' A Line of Words
109
9
``Total Eclipse''
118
9
``Teaching a Stone to Talk''
127
6
``Spring''
133
14
Barbara Ehrenreich
147
18
Introduction to The Snarling Citizen
149
4
``Stamping Out a Dread Scourge''
153
3
``Premature Pragmatism''
156
4
``Oh, Those Family Values''
160
5
Joseph Epstein
165
48
``Compose Yourself''
167
12
``A Mere Journalist''
179
11
``The Art of the Nap''
190
11
``Penography''
201
12
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
213
74
``Writing, `Race,' and the Difference It Makes''
215
16
``Sunday''
231
2
``In the Kitchen''
233
6
``Prime Time''
239
12
Stephen Jay Gould
``Pieces of Eight: Confession of a Humanistic Naturalist''
251
8
``The Creation Myths of Cooperstown''
259
9
``A Cerion for Christopher''
268
9
``The Great Western and the Fighting Temeraire''
277
10
Edward Hoagland
287
42
``To the Point: Truth Only Essays Can Tell''
289
6
``The Courage of Turtles''
295
6
``Learning to Eat Soup''
301
12
``In Okefenokee''
313
16
bell hooks
329
28
``Women Who Write Too Much''
331
6
``Black Women Writing: Creating More Space''
337
6
``Touching the Earth''
343
5
``Justice: Childhood Love Lessons''
348
9
Jamaica Kincaid
357
26
``Writing = Life'' Interview with Writer Jamaica Kincaid
359
6
``In History''
365
8
``Alien Soil''
373
6
``Garden of Envy''
379
4
Ursula le Guin
383
36
``Prospects for Women in Writing''
385
2
``The Fisherwoman's Daughter''
387
20
``The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction''
407
5
``Along the Platte''
412
7
Barry Lopez
419
40
``We Are Shaped by the Sound of the Wind, the Slant of Sunlight''
421
5
``The Stone Horse''
426
8
``A Passage of the Hands''
434
8
``A Presentation of Whales''
442
17
Cynthia Ozick
459
30
``On Permission to Write''
461
4
``The Hole/Birth Catalogue''
465
8
``A Drugstore in Winter''
473
6
``Rushdie in the Louvre''
479
10
Salman Rushdie
489
38
``Imaginary Homelands''
491
9
``The New Empire within Britain''
500
7
``In Good Faith''
507
14
``Censorship''
521
6
Edward Said
527
46
``No Reconciliation Allowed''
529
11
``The Mind of Winter: Reflections on Life in Exile''
540
9
``Palestine, Then and Now: An Exile's Journey through Israel and the Occupied Territories''
549
14
``Jungle Calling''
563
10
Scott Russell Sanders
573
44
``The Singular First Person''
575
9
``Writing from the Center''
584
12
``Letter to a Reader''
596
13
``Buckeye''
609
8
Amy Tan
617
24
``Lost Lives of Women''
619
3
``Mother Tongue''
622
5
``The Language of Discretion''
627
7
``In the Canon for All the Wrong Reasons''
634
7
John Updike
641
30
``Why Write?''
643
8
``Cemeteries''
651
5
``Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters''
656
9
``The Tarbox Police''
665
6
Alice Walker
671
34
``The Black Writer and the Southern Experience''
675
4
``In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens''
679
9
``My Daughter Smokes''
688
3
``Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor''
691
14
Edward O. Wilson
705
48
``The Writing Life''
707
4
``The Serpent''
711
12
``Ethics and Religion''
723
23
``Humanity Seen from a Distance''
746
7
THE STUDENT WRITERS: ESSAYS ABOUT WRITING
753
``Before Beginning''
756
6
Sarah Huntley
``Bees and Fears: Why I Write''
762
4
Monique Fournier
``Untitled''
766
4
Melvin Sterne
``Blue Sky and Gravel: Where There Is No Plot''
770
6
Kathe McAllister
``Why I Write''
776
8
Heidi Beck
``The Five-Paragraph Essay: Friend or Foe?''
784
6
Spencer Schaffner
``The Selfish Art: Exploring Identity through Writing''
790
Marianne Rasmussen
Credits
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Index of Authors and Titles
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