1 The Importance of Dissimulation Shirley Abbot
2 The Importance of Touch Diane Ackerman
3 A White Woman of Color Julia Alvarez
4 Mr. Red Leg Maya Angelou
5 Pornography Margaret Atwood
6 Alien Territory Margaret Atwood
7 A Native Hill Wendell Berry
8 Some Devil's Definitions Ambrose Bierce
9 Objection Noted: Word Processing Sven Bikerts
10 Miss Cooper and Me Louise Bogan
11 The Psuedo-Event Daniel J. Boorstin
12 Micheal Booth
13 The Bean Eaters Gwendolyn Brooks
14 A Small Good Thing Raymond Carver
15 My Father's Life
16 Errand Raymond Carver
17 If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire Michelle Cliff
18 Primary Lessons Judith Ortiz Cofer
19 Marginalia Billy Collins
20 A Yo-Yo Going Down Frank Conroy
21 Burl's Bernard Cooper
22 Looking After John Daniel
23 Last Words Joan Didion
24 Plantation Life Frederick Douglas
25 Life with Daughters Gerald Early
26 About Men Gretel Ehrlich
27 On Becoming A Writer Ralph Ellison
28 A Few Words about Breasts: Shaping Up Absurd Nora Ephron
29 The Leap Louise Erdrich
30 Very Like a Whale Robert Finch
31 Jewels Janet Frame
32 Petty Theft Joan Frank
33 The Gift Outright Robert Frost
34 38 Who Saw Murder, Didn't Call the Police Martin Gansberg
35 An Imaginary Correspondence Rumer Godden
36 The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone Steven Jay Gould
37 The Radio Age 1915-1945 Harvey Green
38 Death Is a Meadowlark John Haines
39 Keeping Things Donald Hall
40 Holding Old Negatives Up to the Light Patricia Hample
41 The Fourth Month Jean Hegland
42 Runaway Lillian Hellman
43 Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway
44 The Urge for an End Edward Hoagland
45 Bedside Manners Andrew Holleran
46 Sand, Tattoo, and the Golden Gate James D. Houston
47 Salvation Langston Hughes
48 The Spiral Cynthia Huntington
49 How It Feels to Be Colored Me Zora Neal Hurston
50 The Declaration of Jefferson and the Congress Thomas Jefferson
51 Gettysburg: July 1, 1863 Jane Kenyon
52 Seasons of Change and Loss Jane Kenyon
53 Two Poems by Anna Akhmatova Jane Kenyon
54 On Seeing England for the First Time Jamaica Kincaid
55 The Forest in the Seeds Barbara Kingslover
56 Silence Maxine Hong Kingston
57 Facing It Yusef Komunyakkaa
58 On Shaving a Beard Phillip Lopate
59 The Stone Horse Bary Lopez
60 Burying Thomas Lynch
61 The Search for Marvin Gardens John Mc Phee
62 The Unmaking of a Scientist Nancy Mairs
63 Helping and Hating the Homeless Peter Marin
64 Quiet Is Freedom Kenneth Maue
65 The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Monaday
66 Coming Home to Books Kyoko Mori
67 Nobel Lecture Toni Morrison
68 From Flannery O'connor's Letters Flannery O'connor
69 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'connor
70 The Total Effect and the Eighth Grade.71 Flannery O'connor