The Mercury Reader for the Developing Writer - Pearson

1 The Mercury Reader for Developing Writers 2005 Table of Contents Edward Abbey, The Right to Arms (Selection A090). Mortimer Adler, How to Mark a Book (Selection A246). Maya Angelou, Caged Bird (Selection A383). Maya Angelou, Champion of the World (SelectionA197). Maya Angelou, Finishing School (SelectionA093). Maya Angelou, Graduation (Selection A001). Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue (Selection A162). Elizabeth Ashe, The Devastation is Terrible (Selection A626). Margaret Atwood, The Female Body (Selection A004). Russell Baker, Growing Up (Selection A200). James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes (Selection A008). Dave Barry, Mr. Language Person Takes Some of Your Questions (A393).

2 Dave Barry, Just Say No to Rugs (Selection A163). Dave Barry, A Hairy Experience (Selection A202). Ambrose Bierce, Some Devil's Definitions (Selection A203). Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish (Selection A314). Judy Brady, Why I Want a Wife (Selection A013). Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool (Selection A319). Paul Campos, Modern Witch Hunts Fueled by Irrational Fear, Media (A671). Rachel Carson, A Fable for Tomorrow (Selection A168). Lorene Cary, Welcome to St. Paul's (Selection A167). Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour (Selection A299). Sandra Cisneros, The Monkey Garden (Selection A495). John Cloud, Guarding Death's Door (Selection A628). Kirsten Cole, Generation X (Selection A253). Bill Cosby, The Baffling Question (Selection A254).

3 Edwidge Danticat, Women Like Us (Selection A367). Joan Didion, Why I Write (Selection A024). Annie Dillard, The Death of a Moth (Selection A026). Annie Dillard, The Chase (Selection A104). Annie Dillard, So This Was Adolescence (Selection A211). Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write (Selection A027). Paul Laurence Dunbar, Letter to Alice Ruth Moore (Selection A480). Gretel Ehrlich, About Men (Selection A212). Gretel Ehrlich, The Western Code (Selection A213). Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways (Selection A339). Christopher John Farley, Nirvana is a Click Away (Selection A554). Laura Fraser, Jailhouse Talk (Selection A629). Ian Frazier, Trust Me, In These Parts, Hot Dogs Actually Repel Bears (A556).

4 Robert Frost, Birches (Selection A311). Ed Fulginti, Do-Gooders Need to Let Us Decide for Ourselves What is Harmful (Selection A672). Randi Glatzer, Curves Ahead: How to Eat and Exercise Your Way to a Great Shape (Selection A404). Ellen Goodman, The Tapestry of Friendship (Selection A108). Ellen Goodman, The "Reasonable Woman" Is an Effective Standard to Establish Harassment (Selection A033). Ellen Goodman, The Company Man (Selection A107). Vicky Hallett, Who Do You Love? (Selection A631). Sue Halpern, A Peaceful Mourning (Selection A642). Sue Halpern, No Room at the Church (Selection A621). Heather Havrilesky, Beach Blanket Bimbology (Selection A620). Langston Hughes, Salvation (Selection A039).

5 Langston Hughes, That Word Black (Selection A040). Langston Hughes, Theme for English B (Selection A408). Zora Neale Hurston, How it Feels to be Colored Me (Selection A041). Molly Ivins, The Romance of Football (Selection A112). Kirk Johnson, Today's Kids Are, Like, Killing the English Language. Yeah Right. (Selection A411). Bronwyn Jones, Arming Myself With a Gun is Not the Answer (Selection A653). Rachel L. Jones, What's Wrong with Black English? (Selection A114). Suzanne Britt Jordan, Neat People v. Sloppy People (Selection A044). Suzanne Britt Jordan, Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from It. (Selection A045). Suzanne Britt Jordan, That Lean and Hungry Look (Selection A043). Wendy Kaminer, Let's Talk about Gender, Baby (Selection A655).

6 Garrison Keillor, How To Write a Personal Letter (Selection A046). Helen Keller, Everything Has a Name (Selection A047). Jamaica Kincaid, From: On Seeing England for the First Time (Selection A412). Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (Selection A301). Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies (Selection A116). Martin Luther King, Jr., I have a Dream (Selection A048). Maxine Hong Kingston, Silence (Selection A225). Philip Levine, The Simple Truth (Selection A415). Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (Selection A054). Mary Mebane, The Scheme of Color (Selection A293). Donald M. Murray, The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript (A061). Seth Mydans, Not Just the Inner Ciety: Well-to-Do Join Gangs (Selection A419).

7 Ted Nancy, Letter to MGM Grand Hotel (Selection A499). Gloria Naylor, Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean? (Selection A062). Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (Selection A065). Clarence Page, Candid Dialogue Key to Curbing Race Generalizations (A656). Grace Paley, Love (Selection A422). Sylvia Plath, Daddy (Selection A318). Katha Pollitt, The Smurfette Principle (Selection A271). Elvis Presley, Letter to President Richard M. Nixon (Selection A486). The Pullman Strikers, Statement to the Convention of the American Railway Union (Selection A487). Anna Quindlen, Abortion is Too Complex to feel All One Way About (A231). Anna Quindlen, Gay (Selection A132). Anna Quindlen, Our Animal Rites (Selection A133).

8 Anna Quindlen, The C Word in the Hallways (Selection A425). Andy Rooney, Doing vs. Thinking: Bush Excels at the Former (Selection A658). Franklin D. Roosevelt, Request for a Declaration of War (Selection A488). Roger Rosenblatt, I Am Writing Blindly (Selection A455). Mike Ross, This Eminem May Melt Your Ears (Selection A533). Carl T. Rowan, Unforgettable Miss Bessie (Selection A233). Jonathan Rowe, Reach Out and Annoy Someone (Selection A517). Zitkala-Sa, From the School Days of an Indian Girl (Selection A442). Scott Russell Sanders, Death of a Homeless Man (Selection A275). Phyllis Schneider, Memory: Tips You'll Never Forget (Selection 659). Chief Seattle, Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott, 1855 (A100).

9 Richard Selzer, The Discus Thrower (Selection A140). Richard Selzer, The Knife (Selection A141). Gary Soto, The Jacket (Selection A192). Gary Soto, Looking for Work (Selection A145). Tessa Sproule, Exposing Ourselves in South Park (Selection A535). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address to the Seneca Falls Conference (A447). Brent Staples, A Brother's Murder (Selection A664). May Swenson, The Universe (Selection A434). Amy Tan, Mother Tongue (Selection A150). Studs Terkel, Miss (Selection A280). Lewis Thomas, On Natural Death (Selection A282). Mark Twain, Luck (Selection A436). Mark Twain, Reading the River (Selection A081). Alice Walker, The Place Where I Was Born (Selection A241). Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (Selection A082).

10 Alice Walker, Everyday Use (Selection A083. E. B. White, Letter to the ASPCA (Selection A493). Elizabeth Wong, The Struggle to be an All-American Girl (Selection A158).)