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Abbey, Edward 148Abinader, Elmaz 155“Above Pate Valley” (Gary Snyder) 86“Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” (Vachel Lindsay) 57Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner) 72Abu-Jaber, Diana 155Accidental Tourist, The (Anne Tyler) 142Acker, Kathy 142Actual, The (Saul Bellow) 103Adams, Abigail 25Adams, Henry 53Address to the Negroes of the State of New York, An(Jupiter Hammon) 13Adventures of Augie March, The (Saul Bellow) 103Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) 40, 48-49Affliction (Russell Banks) 140Affluent Society, The (John Kenneth Galbraith) 101Afterlife and Other Stories, The (John Updike) 139Age of Innocence, The (Edith Wharton) 53Aiiieeeee! (Frank Chin, ed.) 94Albee, Edward 117, 119Alcott, Bronson 27, 28Alcott, Louisa May 27Alexander, Meena 154Alexie, Sherman 152Ali, Agha Shahid 127Allen, Donald 86, 89Allende, Isabel 153Allison, Dorothy 144All My Sons (Arthur Miller) 98All the King’s Men (Robert Penn Warren) 98All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 144All the Sad Young Men (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 70Alurista 91Alvarez, Julia 153Always Running (Luis Rodriguez) 151Amateur Marriage, The (Anne Tyler) 142Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The (Michael Chabon) 143Ambassadors, The (Henry James) 52America Is in the Heart (Carlos Bulosan) 154American, The (Henry James) 52Americana (Don DeLillo) 141American Buffalo (David Mamet) 119American Daughter, An (Wendy Wasserstein) 140American Dream, The (Edward Albee) 117American Geography (Jedidiah Morse) 21“American Liberty” (Philip Freneau) 20American Pastoral (Philip Roth) 111American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth Rexroth) 87American Primitive (Mary Oliver) 130American Tragedy, An (Theodore Dreiser) 47, 54-55, 57, 78America Play, The (Suzan-Lori Parks) 140INDEXAmmons, A.R. 80, 130Among the White Moon Faces (Shirley Geok-lin Lim) 154Anaya, Rudolfo 91, 116Ancient Evenings (Norman Mailer) 110Anderson, Laurie 95Anderson, Sherwood 55, 71, 75Andrews, Bruce 95Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) 138Angelou, Maya 91, 93, 116Angels in America: Part One: Millennium Approaches(Tony Kushner) 139Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika (Tony Kushner) 139Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner) 147Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver) 149Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid) 152Another Country (James Baldwin) 102Another You (Ann Beattie) 143Antin, David 95Antrim, Donald 141Anywhere But Here (Mona Simpson) 147Anzaldúa, Gloria 91, 149“Appalachian Book of the Dead” (Charles Wright) 125Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, An(Lydia Child) 43“Applicant, The” (Sylvia Plath) 83Appointment in Samarra (John O’Hara) 102Arabian Jazz (Diana Abu-Jaber) 155Ariel (Sylvia Plath) 83Armantrout, Rae 122Armies of the Night, The (Norman Mailer) 107, 109Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis) 72, 73Arthur Mervyn (Charles Brockden Brown) 22Ashbery, John 80, 88, 122Ash-Wednesday (T.S. Eliot) 64As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) 72Assistant, The (Bernard Malamud) 104Atlantis (Mark Doty) 128“At Melville’s Tomb” (Hart Crane) 68“At the Fishhouses” (Elizabeth Bishop) 85“At the Gym” (Mark Doty) 128Atwood, Margaret 124Auster, Paul 138, 142Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin) 16, 18Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (James Weldon Johnson) 59Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (Ernest Gaines) 111Autobiography of My Mother, The (Jamaica Kincaid) 152Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The (Oliver Wendell Holmes) 33Awake and Sing! (Clifford Odets) 78Awakening, The (Kate Chopin) 50, 51Awful Rowing Toward God, The (Anne Sexton) 83Ayumi: A Japanese American Anthology (Janice Mirikitani, ed.) 94163