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Includes "Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock" and "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona."
http://www.fallsapart.com/
First Lollapalooza, first Pearl Jam album, first Nirvana album. Warmed over hair metal and derivative pop music begin to lose their stranglehold on the charts. Not a bad year for music, really.
Story is also included in her 1999 collection, Who's Irish.
Includes "Eleven."
http://www.sandracisneros.com/
Short story collection includes "Laurel."
First video: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. "No Name Woman" is the first chapter.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11163242
(Gerald Ford succeeded him the following day.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
Short story collection includes "Everyday Use."
Collection contains the story of the same name, which fist appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1967.
Adapted (not that well) into the movie _Smooth Talk_ in 1985.
http://jco.usfca.edu/works/wgoing/text.html
Having formed in 1960. They disbanded in 1970.
http://beatles.com
The video is satire, of course.
(Written 1951, published 1957. Know the publication date.)
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/ontheroad/
Includes "Howl," "Footnote to Howl," "America," "A Supermarket in California."
http://www.allenginsberg.org/
Collection contains the story of the same name.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html
Contains "The Wide Net."
"A Worn Path" was originally published the year before (1940) in The Atlantic Monthly.
Includes "anyone lived in a pretty how town."
Originally published in Harper's. This "Snopes" story is a prequel to Faulkner's Snopes novels: The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion.
Jan 8, 1935 to Aug 16, 1977
Short story collection that includes "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."
Includes "The Killers" and "Hills Like White Elephants."
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/hemingwaykillers.html
Story first appeared in Fire!, a short-lived journal Hurston organized with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman.
Includes "'next to of course God america I."
Volume included "The Weary Blues" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." (Hughes's famous short poem "Harlem" appeared much later, in 1951.)
Appeared in _The Nation_ magazine.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/19260623/hughes
Includes "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident," "Pagan Prayer," and "Heritage."
Includes "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Anecdote of the Jar," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and the "Snow Man." (Poems also appeared individually, earlier.)
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5952
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