Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1993). First edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes contributions from Jean Ervin, Jacob Cohen, Ward Just, Floyd Skloot, Gerald Early, James Salter, Philip Weiss, Cynthia Ozick, Diane Johnson, Joseph Brodsky, Marcia Aldrich, Paul R. McHugh, Anthony Burgess, Daniel M. Harris, Robert Sherrill, Shaun O'Connell, Thomas C. Palmer, Lawrence Otis Graham, Scott Russell Sanders, Shelby Steele, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison and more. Introduction by Epstein and brief biographies of the contributors. Robert Atwan, series editor. xviii, 378 pp. ISBN: 0-395-636485.