Brian GoreTABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Letter to the Reader
The Reading-Writing Process
On Reading & Thinking:
The Activity and Art of Reading, Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
On Writing & Revision:
Everybody is Talented, Original, and Has Something Important to Say, Brenda Ueland
A Way of Writing, William Stafford
How to Write a Critical Analysis, John Trimble
Shitty First Drafts, Ann Lamott
Simplicity, William Zinsser
On Visual Texts:
The Vocabulary of Comics, Scott McCloud
Audio Selections:
0.1: Anne Lamott
0.2: Louise Erdrich
1 Ideas about Gender: Boys & Girls
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
Strong Girls, from Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher
Inside the World of Boys, from Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, William Pollack
Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls, Katha Pollitt
The War Against Boys, Christina Hoff-Somers
Fiction:
A&P, John Updike
Boys & Girls, Alice Munro
Boys, Rick Moody
Girl, Jamaica Kincaid
Poetry:
Barbie Doll, Marge Piercy
Wishes for Sons, Lucille Clifton
Graphic Fiction:
Gum of Mystery, Lynda Barry
Visual:
Quinceañera, Janet Jarman
Girl Culture, Hannah, 13 years old Lauren Greenfield, (including short text of interview with Hannah)
Shacktown Child, Elm Grove, Oklahoma (1936), Dorothea Lange
Boy and Girl at Debutante Ball, Catherine Karnow
Audio:
1.1: Carol Gilligan
1.2: Paul Kivel
1.3: William Pollack
1.4: Joe Marshall
2 Ideas about Family: Parents & Children
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years, from Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Father, Richard Rodriguez
Notes of a Native Son (memoir), James Baldwin
Mother of the Year (memoir), Paul Theroux
Portrait of My Father as a Young Man and She Thing, from Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods–My Mother’s, My Father’s, and Mine, Noelle Howey
Fiction:
Mother, Grace Paley
My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories, Russell Banks
Everyday Use, Alice Walker
River of Names, Dorothy Allison
Poetry:
A Chinese Banquet, Kitty Tsui
Nikki-Rosa, Nikki Giovanni
Graphic Fiction:
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (excerpt), Chris Ware
Visual:
Parents of Gay Children protest, New York: June 30, 1974
Mother and Child, Edward Curtis
Family eating dinner in kitchen, ca. 1960, William Gottlieb
Audio:
2.1: Richard Rodriguez
2.2: Paul Theroux
2.3: Grace Paley
2.4 Alice Walker
3 Ideas about Education: Stories from School
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
Claiming an Education, Adrienne Rich
New Spelling of My Name, from Zami, Audre Lord
Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil Postman
The Graduation, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Fiction:
The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara
The School, Donald Barthelme
Saint Marie, from Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
Paul’s Case, Willa Cather
Poetry:
We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks
The History Teacher, Billy Collins
Graphic Fiction:
Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (excerpt), Marcel Proust, illustrated by Stephane Heuet
Visual:
Marshals escort girls from school, New Orleans, 1960
In the Schoolroom, Theophile Emmanuel Duverger
Schoolhouse and pupils, 1913
Audio:
3.1: Panel discussion on interdisciplinary studies with Leonard Shlain, Herman Haluza, Jamie Molaro, and Geoffrey Green
3.2: Adrienne Rich
4 Ideas about Love & Hate
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
Compassion and Love, from Reason for Hope, Jane Goodall
from All About Love, bell hooks
What’s So Bad About Hate? Andrew Sullivan
Hateful Things, from The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon
Fiction:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
Amor Divino, Julia Alvarez
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry:
Love Poem, Audre Lorde
Hate Poem, Julie Sheehan
Graphic Fiction:
Ghost World (excerpt), Daniel Clowes
Visual:
The Lovers, Rene Magritte
Kissing War Goodbye, Alfred Eisenstaedt
John & Yoko Bed-In, Gerry Deiter
Couple Hiding Their True Emotions, Fernand Zacot
Audio:
4.1: Discussion on the biology of love with Sue Gerhardt
4.2: Discussion on the psychology of love with Thomas Lewis
4.3: Discussion of hate and the Internet with Mark Potok
4.4: bell hooks
4.5: Jane Goodall
5 Ideas about War & History
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
The War Prayer, Mark Twain
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (excerpt), Philip Gourevitch
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica (excerpt), David Rohde
The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq (excerpt), John Crawford
Fiction:
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Civil Peace, Chinua Achebe
Two Words, Isabelle Allende
War, Luigi Pirandello
Poetry:
The Colonel, Carolyn Forché
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Graphic Fiction:
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia (excerpt), Joe Sacco
Visual:
Ypres
Hutu Refugees Return to Rwanda
Children fleeing napalm, Trang Bang, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972
After a Car Bomb, Najaf, Iraq, 2003
Audio:
5.1: Srebrenicia Anniversary: Ambassador Swanee Hunt, General William Nash, General John W. Vessy, and Mike Shuster
5.2: Rwandan Genocide: Corinne Dufka and Louise Mushikiwabo
5.3: Iraq War: Michael Gordon
5.4: The Chilean Coup: Isabel Allende
6 Ideas about Crime & Punishment
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
Illegalities and Delinquency, from Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
Prison Reform or Prison Abolition, from Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis
The Prison Industrial Complex, Eric Shlosser
My Life is My Sundance, Leonard Peltier
Fiction:
House of the Dead, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Outside Work Detail, Scott Wolven
Enemies, Jimmy Santiago Baca
Kiss of the Spider Woman (excerpt), Manuel Puig
Poetry:
The Report, Dick Allen
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital of the Criminal Insane, Etheridge Knight
Graphic Fiction:
The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett… (excerpt), Rick Geary
Visual:
Tookie Williams
Attica Inmates Raising Fists in Unison During Riots
Woman’s chain gang in Maricopa, California
Audio:
6.1: Panel discussion on clemency and the death penalty: Arthur Serat, Michael Rushford, Wayne Owens, and Mike Perell.
7 Ideas about the Environment: Human vs. Nature vs. Human
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Letter to Thoreau, from prologue of The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson
Silent Spring (excerpt), Rachel Carson
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Fiction:
The Old Man and the Sea (excerpt), Ernest Hemingway
Lessons from the Wolverine, from Fieldnotes, Barry Lopez
The Monkey Wrench Gang (excerpt), Edward Abbey
My Year of Meats, (excerpt), Ruth Ozecki
Poetry:
The World is Too Much with Us, William Wordsworth
November Cotton Flower, Jean Tomer
Graphic Fiction:
Moby Dick (excerpt), Will Eisner
Visual:
Caution tape warning of mad cow disease
Julia “Butterfly” Hill, environmental activist in redwood tree
Protests marking the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster
Audio:
7.1: Wangari Maathai
7.2: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Leon Panetta
7.3: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Brian Baird
7.4: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Kate Wing
7.5: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with John E. McCoster
8 Ideas about Art and Poetry: A New New Wave
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
Can Poetry Matter?, Dana Gioia
Introduction to Break Blow Burn (excerpt), Camille Paglia
Stakes is High, Jeff Chang
loops of perception, Paul D Miller (DJ Spooky that subliminal kid)
Fiction:
Seventeen Syllables, Hisaye Yamamoto
epilogue: women like us, from Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat
New Wave Format, Bobbie Ann Mason
Envy: or, Yiddish in America, Cynthia Ozick
Poetry:
Beware Do Not Read This Poem, Ishmael Reed
Poetry, Marianne Moore
Graphic Fiction:
Cages (excerpt), Dave McKean
Visual:
Luna Cadillac, Jean Michel Basquiat
Tattoo Art
Poetry Reading at Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Writer Ted Johns Looking Up
Audio:
8.1: Paul Miller (DJ Spooky)
8.2: Jeff Chang
8.3: W.S. Merwin
8.4: Adrienne Rich
8.5: Panel discussion on Pablo Neruda: Robert Bly, John Felsteiner, Mark Eisner, and Elan Stevens
9 Ideas and the Mind
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
The Enchanted Loom, from An Alchemy of Mind, Diane Ackerman
Introduction to Mind (excerpt), John Searle
Neural Networks, from On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins
Blink (excerpt), Malcolm Gladwell
Fiction:
Invisible Man (excerpt), Ralph Ellison
A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway
Seize the Day (excerpt), Saul Bellow
Night-Sea Journey, John Barth
Poetry:
The Brain is Wider than the Sky, Emily Dickinson
Among Schoolchildren, W. B. Yeats
Graphic Fiction:
Izzy the Cockroach and the Meaning of Life, from A Life Force, Will Eisner
Visual:
The Thinker, Auguste Rodin
Woman solving puzzle
PET scans of the brain
Audio:
9.1: Malcolm Gladwell
9.2: John Searle
10 Ideas about the Future: Fact & Fiction
Introductory Essay
Nonfiction:
On Time Travel, Nova interview with Carl Sagan
The Future Doesn’t Need Us, Bill Joy
Forecasting the Future, from What is Coming, H.G. Wells
Future Shock (excerpt), Alvin Toffler
Fiction:
Utopia (excerpt), Sir Thomas More
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula LeGuin
Oryx and Crake (excerpt), Margaret Atwood
Little Brother, Walter Mosley
Poetry:
Re-adjustment, C.S. Lewis
The Future, Rainer Maria Rilke
Graphic Fiction:
The Invisibles (vol. 1): You Say You Want a Revolution (excerpt), Mike Kennedy
Visual:
In Chair Overlooking Wormhole
Dystopia
Boy with Robert the Robot
Audio:
10.1: Edward Rothstein
