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Afterwords
Afterwords
Stories and Reports from 9/11 and Beyond  
Compiled by: The Editors of Salon.com / Foreword by: David Talbot
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

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 in Waiting ¦ Asra Q. Nomani

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 ¦ Phillip Robertson

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've 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


Author Biographies

Acknowledgments