A book of stories and essays by famous writers with comprehensive suggestions for in depth assignment topics for students. Authors included are Saul Bellow, John Berger, Raymond Carver, Robert Coles, Thomas Cottle, Stephen Klineberg, Annie Dillard, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Sigmund Freud, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Kuhn, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy, Adrienne Rich, Richard Rodriguez, John Ruskin, Gloria Steinem, Studs Terkel, Alice Walker and John Edgar Wideman.