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The authors we spoke to were modest enough not to recommend their own works. We decided to do it for them.
- Robert Bly
- American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity (HarperCollins: 1990)
- Iron John (Vintage: 1992)
- Sissela Bok
- Secrets (Vintage: 1990)
- Lying (Vintage: 1990)
- Sandra Cisneros
- The House on Mango Street (Knopf: 1994)
- Stephen Greenblatt
- Marvelous Possessions (University of Chicago: 1991)
- Learning to Curse (Routledge Kegan Paul: 1992)
- Christopher Hitchens
- Blood, Class, and Nostalgia (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1990)
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Woman Warrior (Knopf: 1976)
- China Men (Knopf: 1980)
- Tripmaster Monkey (Vintage: 1990)
- Sam Keen
- Fire in the Belly (Bantam: 1992)
- Hymns to an Unknown God (Bantam: 1994)
- Herbert Kohl
- I Won’t Learn From You (New Press: 1994)
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Left Hand of Darkness (Walker: 1994; orig. date 1969)
- A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (HarperPrism: 1994)
- Gus Lee
- China Boy (Penguin: 1991)
- Honor and Duty (Knopf: 1994)
- Grace Paley
- Later the Same Day (Penguin: 1986)
- The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1994)
- Katha Pollitt
- Reasonable Creatures (Knopf: 1994)
- Richard Russo
- The Risk Pool (Vintage: 1994)
- Nobody’s Fool (Vintage: 1994)
- Art Spiegelman
- Maus I (Pantheon: 1986)
- Maus II (Pantheon: 1991)
- The Wild Party (Pantheon: 1994)
- Brent Staples
- Parallel Time (Pantheon: 1994)
- Gloria Steinem
- Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Signet: 1986)
- Revolution From Within (Little, Brown: 1992)
- Moving Beyond Words (Simon & Schuster: 1994)
- Tobias Wolff
- This Boy’s Life (HarperPerenial: 1992)
- In Pharaoh’s Army (Knopf: 1994)
