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Linda Ben-Zvi, excerpt from “‘Murder, She Wrote’: The Genesis of Susan Glaspell’s Trifles.” Theatre Journal 44:2 (1992), 141–62. Copyright © 1992 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Brian Friel, excerpt from Translations from Selected Plays of Brian Friel. Used with permission from The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C.
Robert Frost, excerpt from “Fire and Ice” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers,” 1917. Copyright © Valentina A. Cook. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Stephen J. Gould, excerpt from “Were Dinosaurs Dumb?” from Natural History, 87(5): 9–16. Reprinted by permission of Rhonda R. Shearer.
Elaine Hedges, excerpts from “Small Things Reconsidered: Susan Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’” in Women’s Studies 12 (1986): 89–110. Copyright © Taylor & Francis, reprinted by permission of the publisher (Taylor & Francis Group, http://www.informaworld.com).
Langston Hughes, “Ballad of the Landlord” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor, copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Shirley Jackson, excerpt from “The Lottery” from The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson. Copyright © 1948, 1949 by Shirley Jackson. Copyright renewed 1976, 1977 by Laurence Hyman, Barry Hyman, Mrs. Sarah Webster, and Mrs. Joanne Schnurer.
Dorling Kindersly, excerpt from “Encyclopedia of Fishing.” Copyright © Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1994. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Group, Ltd.
Michael Meyer, question adapted from The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Ninth Edition, p. 745. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Leonard Mustazza, excerpt from “Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and ‘A Jury of Her Peers’” in Studies in Short Fiction 26, no. 4 (Fall, 1989): 489–96. Copyright © 1989 Fayetteville State University.
Tim O’Brien, excerpt from “How to Tell a True War Story” from The Things They Carried. Copyright © 1990 by Tim O’Brien.
Anne and Jack Rudloe, excerpt from “Electric Warfare: The Fish That Kills with Thunderbolts,” from Smithsonian 24(5): 95–105. Reprinted by permission.
Amy Tan, excerpt from “The Girl with Yin Eyes” from The Hundred Secret Senses. Copyright © 1995 by Amy Tan.
Betsy Taylor, “Big Box Stores Are Bad for Main Street,” from CQ Researcher (November 1999). Copyright © 1999 by CQ Press, a division of Sage Publications. Reprinted with permission.
Madeleine Thien, excerpt from “Simple Recipes.” Copyright © Madeleine Thien, 2001. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Eudora Welty, excerpt from “Why I Live at the P. O.” from A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, copyright © 1941 and renewed 1969 by Eudora Welty.
Walt Whitman, excerpt from “A Noiseless Patient Spider” from Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, copyright © 1900.
Tennessee Williams, excerpt from The Glass Menagerie. Copyright © 1945, renewed 1973 by The University of the South.
Rebecca Webber, excerpts from “Make Your Own Luck,” Psychology Today, May/June 2010, pages 63–68. Copyright © 2010 by Sussex Publishers, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Psychology Today.
Gary Wills, excerpt from “Two Speeches on Race,” originally published in the New York Review of Books. Copyright © 2008 by Gary Wills, used by permission of The Wiley Agency, LLC.