Graduation / Maya Angelou - A Victim / Bruno Bettelheim - The Town dump / Wallace Stegner - On Dumpster diving / Lars Eighner - How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston - On being a cripple / Nancy Mairs - Beauty: When the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker - Memories of Christmas / Dylan Thomas - On Going home / Joan Didion - St Urbain Street then and now / Mordecai Richler - Four generations / Joyce Maynard - The Brown wasps / Loren Eisley - Last onsets: teaching with AIDS / Michael Lynch - Once more to the lake / E.B. Includes bibliographical references and index