CHRONOLOGICAL CONTENTS Preface Introduction The Allegory of the Cave Plato For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing A Modest Proposal (1729) Jonathan Swift For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Cask of Amontillado (1846) Edgar Allan Poe For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) Frederick Douglass For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Address to the Legislature of New York (1854) Elizabeth Cady Stanton For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Life Without Principle (1863) Henry David Thoreau For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Advice to Youth (1882) Mark Twain For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Necklace (1884) Guy de Maupassant For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Shooting an Elephant (1936) George Orwell For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD The Lottery (1948) Shirley Jackson For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Notes of a Native Son (1955) James Baldwin For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD Excerpts from ''Letter from a Birmingham Jail'' (1963) Martin Luther King, Jr. For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Ballot or the Bullet (1964) Malcolm X For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD Trip to Hanoi (1968) Susan Sontag For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD Speech on Impeachment (We the People) (1974) Barbara Jordan For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Why I Write (1976) Joan Didion For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Split at the Root (1982) Adrienne Rich For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space (1986) Brent Staples For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Am I Blue? (1986) Alice Walker For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing How to Tame a Wild Tongue, an Excerpt (1987) Gloria Anzaldúa For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Management of Grief (1988) Bharati Mukherjee For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Sh**** First Drafts (1994) Anne Lamott For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Secret Life of the Love Song (1999) Nick Cave For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Waiter''s Wife (1999) Zadie Smith For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Perils of Indifference (1999) Elie Wiesel For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Fast Food Nation, an Excerpt (2000) Eric Schlosser For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Why We Travel (2000) Pico Iyer For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Youth in Asia (2000) David Sedaris For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD Shooting Dad (2000) Sarah Vowell For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Consider the Lobster (2004) David Foster Wallace For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing 1918 Influenza: The Mother of All Pandemics (2006) Jeffrey K. Taubenberger and David M. Morens For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008) Nicholas Carr For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The Matthew Effect (2008) Malcolm Gladwell For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Go Gentle Into That Good Night (2009) Roger Ebert For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Assassins of the Mind (2009) Christopher Hitchens For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Reprieve (2009) Tim Kreider For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories (2012) Roxane Gay For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing My President Was Black (2017) Ta-Nehisi Coates For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Going It Alone (2017) Rahawa Haile For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing To Be, or Not to Be (2018) Masha Gessen For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD You Owe Me an Apology (2018) Brittany Packnett Cunningham For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Origin Story: Carrying Histories of Protest (2019) Jaquira Díaz For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing The American Nightmare (2020) Ibram X. Kendi For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing Pandemics Leave Us Forever Altered (2020) Charles C. Mann For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine (2020) Adrienne LaFrance For Informal Writing For Discussion For Writing WHAT''S NEW IS OLD.