From the Book - First HarperPerennial edition.
From A childhood / Harry Crews --
From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro --
From Wolf willow / Wallace Stegner --
From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon --
From Growing up / Russell Baker --
From Facts of life / Maureen Howard --
From The sacred journey / Frederick Buechner --
From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick --
From Confessions of a knife / Richard Selzer --
From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick --
From A son of the middle border / Hamlin Garland --
From Stop-time / Frank Conroy --
From The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X --
From The earth is enough / Harry Middleton --
From Clear pictures / Reynolds Price --
From Black boy / Richard Wright --
From This boy's life / Tobias Wolff --
Shoot the piano player / Don Asher --
From Will's boy / Wright Morris --
From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston --
From Notes of a native son / James Baldwin --
From This stubborn soil / William Owens --
From Going to the territory / Ralph Ellison --
From The duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolff --
From The same river twice / Chris Offutt --
From Left handed / Left Handed --
From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody --
From Court of memory / James McConkey --
Who won the West? / William Kittredge --
Replacing memory / Barry Lopez --
From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston --
From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead --
From Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman --
The star thrower / Loren Eiseley --
From The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams.