Research Catalog

Title

Afterwords : stories and reports from 9/11 and beyond / compiled by the editors of Salon.com.

Publication

New York : Washington Square Press, c2002.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Salon.com (Firm)

Description

xi, 333 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

An anthology that gives a voice to the day that left a stunning roar of silence across America.

Subject

• 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Personal narratives
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Public opinion
• Public opinion > United States
• United States > Public opinion
• United States > Foreign public opinion

Genre/Form

Personal narratives

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / David Talbot -- Ground zero. Running against the grain : a survivor's tale / Ann Marsh -- A season in hell / Christopher Ketcham -- The dig / James Croak -- Emotional rescue / William Harvey -- The devil's smoke / Christopher Ketcham -- Nothing will be the same. Writing in the dark / Rick Moody -- No more high heels / Janet Fitch -- Consciousness on overload / Caroline Knapp -- Sex in a time of terror / Cole Kazdin -- Requiem for a stranger / Jennifer Foote Sweeney -- U2 elevate New York / David Talbot -- King Kong's home away from home / Stephanie Zacharek -- The enemy. Deciphering suicide / Jeffrey Eugenides -- The martyr waiting ; At home with the Taliban / Asra Q. Nomani -- Bin Laden's creepy charisma / Joan Walsh -- Bin Laden's diary / Tom McNichol -- Afghanistan. All crazy on the Kunduz front ; Panic at the Bangi Bridge / Phillip Robertson -- The first casualties / Sean Kenny -- The home front. Get a grip, America! / Laura Miller -- I love Old Glory : but not the creeps who waved it all my life / King Kaufman -- Islam's flawed spokesmen / Jake Tapper -- The prime-time smearing of Sami Al-Arian / Eric Boehlert -- Stand beside her / King Kaufman -- Bringing the war home / Damien Cave -- A memo to American Muslims / M.A. Muqtedar Khan -- Drafted into the cult of war / Chris Colin -- Collateral damage. The kitschification of September 11 / Daniel Harris -- Dan Rather's tears / Stephanie Zacharek -- Confessions of a 9/11 widow / A.R. Torres -- Missing women / Lauren Sandler -- The island of mourning / Terry Golway -- Not exactly fatherless / Kevin J. Sweeney -- Start making sense. America the scapegoat / Meera Atkinson -- The bloody Jordan River now flows through America / Gary Kamiya -- America is the biggest terrorist state : a conversation with Noam Chomsky / Suzy Hansen -- The making of a hawk / David Talbot.

ISBN

0743456122

OCLC

• 50675629
• SCSB-10937815

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library