This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published.

The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917.

An entertaining anthology of writings features both nonfiction essays and short stories that cover such topics as art critiques, poetry, country song lyrics, odes to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, tomato sandwiches, the Doors, and more. ...

This ambitious book is an answer of sorts. By exposing the rhetoric of empire, Spurr begins to loosen its hold over discourse about--and between--different cultures.

First published in 2001, this new edition of one of the foundational texts in trauma studies includes a new preface by the author that assesses the gravitational pull between life writing and trauma in the twenty-first century, a tension ...

This work, covering a period of three centuries, analyzes the narratives of American women that were written whilst being held prisoner by a variety of different captors.

Viewed from Mt. Vernon Street, the problem of life was as simple as it was classic, Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a sure guide.

**** New edition of the Greenwood Press original of 1979 (which is cited in BCL3), with a new introduction, chapter, and a supplementary bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing. John Updike, known for his fiction and poetry, has assembled a motely but not unshapely collection of assorted non-fictional prose written during the last ten years.

"Wherever you go in New York, you walk through somebody's literary turf. . . . In Phillip Lopate's excellent anthology . . . . what really shines . . . is the journalism."--Garrison Keillor, "The New York Times Book Review."