Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9780813548340
Content:
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, a gallery of O.Henry award recipients, and many best-selling authors come together to share personal and compelling challenges and experiences. From contemplations on past drug use to reflections on gun control, social justice, passion and its sacrifices, and adventures such as skydiving, mountain climbing, and golfing, the topics vary greatly. This kaleidoscopic anthology is a commentary on the lives of prominent literary artists and ordinary citizens who have made simple, yet powerful choices that provoked change in one's self and for humanityùmuch the same way that Luke and Jennifer Reynolds do by building this invaluable collection for readers and the world of human rights.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. The Fears Within -- Weeping Unfamiliar Tears -- Scared -- The Risk of (Not) Communicating -- Real Risks -- Holding a Little Girl's Hand -- Safe Passage -- Rescuing Fire from the Flood -- Weeping Unfamiliar Tears -- Scared -- The Risk of (Not) Communicating -- Real Risks -- Holding a Little Girl's Hand -- Safe Passage -- Rescuing Fire from the Flood -- Part II. Writing Risk -- Life Drawings -- Writing Toward the Center -- Like a Syrupy Sweet -- An Apostate in Academe -- Risks in Writing the Novel, The Rape of Sita -- One Man's Risk -- Writing Sucks -- On the Line -- Politics and the Imagination: How to Get Away with Just about Anything (in Ten Not-So-Easy Lessons) -- Life Drawings -- Writing Toward the Center -- Like a Syrupy Sweet -- An Apostate in Academe -- Risks in Writing the Novel: The Rape of Sita -- One Man's Risk -- Writing Sucks -- Politics and the Imagination: How to Get Away with Just about Anything (in Ten Not-So-Easy Lessons) -- Part III. Where I Come From -- That Other World That Was the World -- Melodious Chimes -- Rescued by Junkies -- The Prozac Variations -- Our Side of the Tracks -- The House Fire -- The Risk of Deadness -- The Risk of Consciousness -- High Noon at Midnight -- Recipe -- Risk -- That Other World That Was the World -- Melodious Chimes -- Rescued by Junkies -- The Prozac Variations -- Our Side of the Tracks -- The House Fire -- The Risk of Deadness -- The Risk of Consciousness -- High Noon at Midnight -- Recipe -- Risk -- Part IV. Creating Change -- Taking Risks -- Spinning -- Girls and Guns -- From Individual Despair to Collective Risk Taking: Stopping the Corporate Bullies -- Angels or Apes? An Inquiry into the Nature of Modern Sadism and the Optional Extinction of Our Species.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813546179
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813546179
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1016473
