Experiences:reader F/developing Writers

1. Ways of Reading. 2. Reading, Thinking and Writing. 3. Family. Feiffer Cartoon. Getting at the Heart of What's Wrong With This Country,Ami Chen, San Francisco Examiner, September 28, 1992. A Bias Against Whites, Lisa Taylor Sims, WashingtonPost, SJMN, February 4, 1992. The Case Against Family Values, Shere Hite, WashingtonPost, July 10, 1994. Do Fathers Still Know Best? David Rosenthal, SJMN,June 18, 1989. Real Dads Do Not Play Mom, Norman Podhoretz, SJMN,June 18, 1986. Orphans Speak Out, Ladie Terry, Chih-Hong Hsu, Lyn Duf, andWilliam Johnson, Pacific News Service, SJMN, December 13, 1994. Deliverance, Peter Davis, Hometown, 1982. 4. Parent and Child. Wasserman Carton. The Telephone Call, Lynda Barry, Mother Jones, n. d. Mothers and Daughters, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lands'EndDirect Merchants Catalog, May, 1992. Boy Crazy, Wendy Ho Iwata, Image, March 11, 1990. Snip, Snip: Trading Haircuts Is Cherished Father-SonTradition, James Bouman, Milwaukee Journal, January 10, 1988. Memories of Father, Yaacov Luria, San FranciscoExaminer, June 15, 1991. Notes of a Native Son (excerpt), James Baldwin. Picking Plums, Bernard Cooper, Harper's Magazine,August 1992. 5. Food. Dave Cartoon Nicole Hollander. The Gastronomical Me, M. F. K. Fisher, 1943 and Soup andBread, 1978. Dr. Kellogg and the U.S. Diet, Evan Jones, AmericanFood: The Gastronomic Story, 1990. Food Owes Him the World, Barbara Karoff, San Francisco Examiner, July 15, 1992. The Glorification of Anorexic Emaciation, Stephanie Salter, San Francisco Examiner, 1993. The Legal Drug, Anna Quindlen, The New York Times,June 11, 1994. Democracy at Stake, Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for aSmall Planet, 1982. Eating America: "What is a Taco Anyway?" and Fearof Food, Colman Andrews, Everything on the Table, 1992. 6. Television. Rank & Ernest Cartoon. Harried With Children: TV's Bad Scenes for Kids,Kathleen Parker, Orlando Sentinel, SJMN, June 18, 1990. Pass the Chips, Mark Leyner, The New Yorker, August16, 1993. Blest Be the TVs that Bind, Matt James, San FranciscoExaminer, 1994. Kill Your Television, James A. Herrick, Scripps HowardNews Service, SJMN, June 14, 1994. The Ties That Bind 'Wiseguy,'Joyce Millman, SanFrancisco Examiner, January 25, 1988. Is It Really Television's Job to Fan Flames of Unrest?Todd Ditlin, San Francisco Examiner, May 4, 1992. Television: How Far It Has Come in 30 Years, Newton N.Minow, Vital Speeches, May 9, 1991. 7. Music. Doonesbury Cartoon. Teen's Mom Horrified by First Rock Concert, Ann Landers,Peninsula Times Tribune, February 7, 1988. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Jeffrey Moser,Rolling Stone, November 26, 1992. Ice Cube: Buckwheat with a Gutter Rap, Derrick Z. Jackson,Boston Globe (San Francisco Examiner), December 11, 1992. Mozart, the IQ and Music Sales, Javier B. Pacheco, San Francisco Examiner, November 14, 1993. Still Hot, Still Sexy, Still Dead, Barry Walters, Image, February 24, 1991. Sinead Speaks, Alan Light, Rolling Stone, October 29,1992. The Making of a Great American Band, Elena Oumano,Image, October 25, 1992. Music, Alan Bloom, excerpt from The Closing of theAmerican Mind. 8. Consuming, Cathy Cartoon, Cathy Guisewaite. Sorry, Friend, My Home Is a No-Selling Zone, Marta Vogel,Washington Post, SJMN, September 8, 1992. Are We Losing Our Way in $150 Sneakers, Ellen Goodman,Boston Globe, SJMN, November 8, 1991. Imelda In All of Us, Katharine MacDonald, The WashingtonPost, April 7, 1986. In Minnesota, the Biggest Megamall Under the Moon, DavidSarasohn, The Oregonian, San Francisco Examiner, July 25, 1989. In a Shopping Mall, A Vision of the Future, RichardRodriguez, Pacific News Service, SJMN, January 10, 1990. Shoppers of the World Unite! Tough Girls Don't Knit,Freda Garmaise, Little Brown, 1990. On the Mall, Joan Didion, 1975, The White Album. 9. Driving and Riding. Cartoon from The New Yorker. Impatient Motorists and Their Middle- Fingered Salute,Susan MacLeod, San Francisco Examiner, July 30, 1993. Todd's Story, Anonymous, Aide Magazine, Spring,1984. Beware the Boy Who Asks "May I Borrow the CarKeys," T. T. Nhu, SJMN, August 11, 1989. Get Off the Road, Glen Martin, SJMN, June 18, 1989. Mercedes-Benz, Al Young from Kinds of Blue. What Harm Can Come From a Few Glasses of Wine? An AnonymousSurgeon, Aide Magazine, October, 1993. Limo to Hell, Merrill Markoe, What the Dogs Have TaughtMe and Other Amazing Things I've Learned, 1992. 10. Work. Tom Toles Cartoon, Buffalo News. Letter to a Kid, Success Motivation Institute, n. d. Tyrannical Bosses Spawn Naturally in Workplace, SusanHarte, Cox News Service, SJMN, June 28, 1992. Beryl Simpson, Studs Terkel, from Working. A Pipefitter's Dream, Mary Gaddis, San FranciscoExaminer, February 7, 1991. Drudge Queens of Office Opinion, Debra J. Saunders, LosAngeles Daily News, SJMN, January 3, 1991. Men Sell Themselves into Lives of Desperation, WarrenFarrell, from The Myth of Male Power, Simon and Schuster, 1993. The Immigrants Have Something to Teach Us, RichardRodriguez, Pacific News Service, SJMN, August 17, 1993. Looking for Work, Gary Soto, from Living Up theStreet. 11. Men and Women. Feiffer Cartoon. What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate, Gary Soto,West, June 7, 1992. In a Multi-Coiffeurial Society, This is an Outrage, FromaHarrop, Providence Journal, SJMN, May 17, 1993. Fishing for Love, Joyce Maynard, San Jose MercuryNews, August 16, 1993. The Myths of Female Weakness, Caryl Rivers, Los AngelesTimes, SJMN, n. d. Brothers, Please, Stop, Just Stop, Donna Britt, Washington Post, SJMN, June 12, 1992. Why Women Require Special Treatment, Edward Enfield, London Observer SFEXAMINER, July 13, 1994. Homosexuality: Heterosexual Males'Bogeyman, JamesRicci, Detroit Free Press, SJMN, August 17, 1989. Write Like a Man, What the Dogs Have Taught Me, MerrillMarkoe, Viking Penguin, 1992. The Education of Ingrid Canright, Ingrid Canright, Antioch Review, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Fall, 1985).Lovas, John C. is the author of 'Experiences:reader F/developing Writers' with ISBN 9780673468789 and ISBN 067346878X.