The Aesthetics of Paranoia: On the twentieth anniversary of Jonestown "The Conscious Reader", Ninth Edition 2003, and Eighth Edition, 2000

Jonestown essay originally published in Art issues. included here in "Identification" section alongside James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, Annie Dillard, Betty Friedan, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty!

"The Conscious Reader is an exceptionally rich, thematic anthology of nonfiction prose and literary works, with a multidisciplinary and culturally diverse selection of readings. Renowned for the quality of its selections, The Conscious Reader represents a broad range of academic disciplines and interests, including art, cultural studies, education, psychology, philosophy, politics, science, technology, and environmental studies. The 168 selections also represent a wide range of genres: 25 personal reminiscences, 81 essays, 22 short stories, 36 poems, 2 plays, and 4 full-color paintings. They range from the classical (Plato's Crito) to the contemporary (Maya Angelou, Roger Rosenblatt, and Kenzaburo Oe)."