Table of contents for Short takes : brief encounters with contemporary nonfiction / edited by Judith Kitchen.

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Editor's Introduction 000
peggy shumaker	Moving Water, Tucson 000
lucia perillo	Brief History of My Thumb 000
stephen kuusisto	Night Song 000
rebecca mcclanahan	Signs and Wonders 000
richard rodriguez	from "Mexico's Children" 000
mary clearman blew	Tenino 000
mark spragg	In Wyoming 000
ann daum	Those Who Stay and Those 
Who Go 000
pamela michael	The Khan Men of Agra 000
salman rushdie	Water's Edge 000
naomi shihab nye	Someone I Love 000
joe mackall	Words of My Youth 000
lawrence sutin	Six Postcards 000
lia purpura	September 000
anne mcduffie	Winter Wheat 000
amy tan	confessions 000
kelly cherry	Planet Unflinching 000
dorothy allison	from Two or Three Things 
I Know for Sure 000
kim barnes	Work 000
kathleen dean moore	Muskgrass Chara 000
katrina roberts	Undercurrent 000
james galvin	A Second Time 000
verlyn klinkenborg	January 000
larry woiwode	Winter 000
ted kooser	In Nebraska 000
kent meyers	The Night Trucks 000
sven birkerts	Opposite of South 000
sherman alexie	What Sacagawea 
Means to Me 000
stephen dunn	Two 000
paul zimmer	The Trains 000
david huddle	Men at Night 000
scott ely	Random 000
judith kitchen	Standard Time 000
janet wondra	The War at Home 000
wang ping	Book War 000
lawrence millman	Bookless in Biak 000
ron carlson	Disclaimer 000
michael martone	Contributor's Note 000
david sedaris	Me Talk Pretty One Day 000
barbara mallonee	Semi-Colon 000
stephen corey	Experiencing 000
barbara hurd	Moon Snail 000
reg saner	Breakfast with Canis latrans 000
charles bergman	An Animal Looks at Me 000
susanne antonetta	The Human Road 000
ann pancake	Capital Realism 000
pico iyer	Jet Lag 000
m. j. iuppa	Daylight Savings Time 000
brenda miller	Getting Yourself Home 000
paul lisicky	Afternoon with Canals 000
mary paumier jones	Siena, Burnt and Raw 000
samuel hynes	from The Growing Seasons 000
jo ann beard	Behind the Screen 000
emily hiestand	Hose 000
joseph epstein	Take Me Out to the Ballgame 000
peter balakian	The Old Country 000
hayden carruth	Human Cruelty 000
luc sante	The Unknown Soldier 000
stuart dybek	Confession 000
sebastian matthews	Kind of Blue 000
dinty w. moore	Son of Mr. Green Jeans 000
michael datcher	the spinners 000
sonja livingston 	The Ghetto Girls' Guide to 
Dating and Romance 000
anne panning	The Mother 000
joanna mcnaney	Clean Slate 000
valerie miner	Ritual Meals 000
joyce thompson	Getting Rid of the Gun 000
gerald stern	Bullet in My Neck 000
michael perry	The Big Nap 000
bill capossere	The Museum of 
Obsolete Colors 000
marvin bell	Four 000
s. l. wisenberg	Margot's Diary 000
jane brox	Salt Hay 000
terry tempest williams	Revision 000
john mcphee	They're in the River 000
sandra swinburne	Essay, Dresses, and Fish 000
albert goldbarth	Some Cloths 000
Biographical Notes 000
Alphabetical Contents 000
List of Themes 000
Permissions 000

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

American essays -- 20th century.
Reportage literature, American.