A Pocketful of Essays, Volume I, Rhetorically Arranged

By: David Madden

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Synopsis: The essays include: Brent Staples, "Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space"; Annie Dillard, "A Chase"; Langston Hughes, "Salvation"; George Orwell, "A Hanging"; N. Scott Momaday, "The Way to Rainy Mountain"; Virginia Woolf, "The Death of the Moth"; Joan Didion, "Marrying Absurd"; William F. Buckley, Jr., "Why Don't We Complain?"; Alan M. Dershowitz, "Shouting 'Fire!'"; Jessica Mitford, "Embalming in the U.S.A."; Deborah Tannen, "How to Give Orders Like a Man"; Russell Baker, "Slice of Life"; Suzanne Britt, "Neat People vs. Sloppy People"; Bruce Catton, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts"; Rachel Carson, "A Fable for Tomorrow"; E. M. Forster, "My Wood"; Stephen King, "Why We Crave Horror Movies"; Lewis Thomas, "The Lie Detector"; Alleen Pace Nilsen, "Sexism in English: A 1990s Update"; Susan Allen Toth, "Cinematypes"; William Zinsser, "College Pressures"; Bruno Bettelheim, "The Holocaust"; Barbara Ehrenreich, "Cultural Baggage"; Richard Rodriguez, "Growing Up Old"; Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream"; Shelby Steele, "Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference"; Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public"; and Drew Buckhowski, "Internet Indexing Services: Why You Can't Find What You're Looking For".