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INDEXMason, Bobbie Ann 138, 144Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon) 109Masters, Edgar Lee 56, 57Mather, Cotton 10Mating (Norman Rush) 150M. Butterfly (David Henry Hwang) 116McCarthy, Cormac 144McCarthy, Mary 141McCorkle, Jill 144McCourt, Frank 138, 141McDermott, Alice 141, 142McGuane, Thomas 147McInerney, Jay 112, 142McKay, Claude 69McMurtry, Larry 147, 148McPherson, James Alan 145McPherson, Sandra 128Meadowlands (Louise Glück) 124Mean Spirit (Linda Hogan) 148Medea (Robinson Jeffers) 68Mehta, Ved 138Melville, Herman 8, 14, 22, 23, 24, 27, 32, 36, 37, 38-40, 49Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) 136Mencken, H.L. 21Merrill, James 80Merwin, W.S. 89, 122Messerli, Douglas 95Metrical History of Christianity (Edward Taylor) 8Mexico City Blues (Jack Kerouac) 107M’Fingal (John Trumbull) 20Miami and the Siege of Chicago (Norman Mailer) 110Michaels, Meredith 137Mickelsson’s Ghosts (John Gardner) 114Middleman and Other Stories, The (Bharati Mukherjee) 153Middle Passage (Charles Johnson) 146Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) 141“Midnight Consultation, A” (Philip Freneau) 20Millay, Edna St. Vincent 90Miller, Arthur 97, 98-99, 101, 116, 119Miller, Sue 140Millett, Kate 90, 110Mills, C. Wright 101Mills of the Kavanaughs, The (Robert Lowell) 81Minh-Ha, Trinh 154“Minister’s Black Veil, The” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 38“Miniver Cheevy” (Edwin Arlington Robinson) 57Mirikitani, Janice 91, 94, 150Miss Firecracker Contest, The (Beth Henley) 140Mistress of Spices, The (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni) 154Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) 8, 36, 37, 38-40, 146Modern Chivalry (Hugh Henry Brackenridge) 20Modern Instance, A (William Dean Howells) 51Mohr, Nicholasa 153Momaday, N. Scott 116, 147, 149Mommy Myth, The (Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels) 137Mona in the Promised Land (Gish Jen) 150Month of Sundays, A (John Updike) 106Moody, Rick 141Moon Lake (Eudora Welty) 100Moore, Lorrie 138Moore, Marianne 68, 85Mora, Pat 148Morales, Aurora Levins 153Mori, Toshio 150Morrison, Toni 46, 76, 114-115, 116Morse, Jedidiah 21Mosquito Coast, The (Paul Theroux) 112Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O’Neill) 78Moviegoer, The (Walker Percy) 112Mr. Ives’ Christmas (Oscar Hijuelos) 153Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Saul Bellow) 103Mr. Spaceman (Robert Olen Butler) 147Mukherjee, Bharati 153-154“Mule Heart” (Jane Hirshfield) 129Mules and Men (Zora Neale Hurston) 76Mullen, Harryette 145Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed) 145Murray, Judith Sargent 25Muse & Drudge (Harryette Mullen) 145Museums and Women (John Updike) 106Music School, The (John Updike) 106My Alexandria (Mark Doty) 128My Antonia (Willa Cather) 58“My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 38My Life (Lyn Hejinian) 122My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (Ann Beattie) 143My Life As a Man (Philip Roth) 110“My Lost Youth” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 33Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The (Michael Chabon) 143Mysteries of Winterthurn (Joyce Carol Oates) 114Myths and Texts (Gary Snyder) 82Nabokov, Vladimir 105, 108Nafisi, Azar 136Naked and the Dead, The (Norman Mailer) 97Naked Lunch, The (William Burroughs) 87Namesake, The (Jhumpa Lahiri) 154Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Edgar Allan Poe) 36Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Sojourner Truth) 43Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An AmericanSlave (Frederick Douglass) 46Native Son (Richard Wright) 75, 152Native Speaker (Chang-rae Lee) 154Natural, The (Bernard Malamud) 104Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 28Naylor, Gloria 143Necromance (Rae Armantrout) 122Negative Blues (Charles Wright) 125171