From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / Robin Romm --
Ebenezer laughs back: confessions of a workaholic / Pam Houston --
What came next / Theresa Rebeck --
On impractical urges / Ayana Mathis --
Girl with knife / Camas Davis --
Reply all / Robin Romm --
Nature and nurture / Marcia Chatelain --
Crying in the bathroom / Erika L. Sánchez --
Both / Yael Chatav Schonbrun --
No happy harmony / Elizabeth Corey --
Leaning in, leaning out / Allison Barrett Carter --
The price of black ambition / Roxane Gay --
Escape velocity / Claire Vaye Watkins --
Single lead / Blair Braverman --
The Chang girls / Lan Samantha Chang --
Goal your own way / Evany Thomas --
Astronauts / Nadia P. Manzoor --
The snarling girl: notes on ambition / Elisa Albert --
Ambitchin' / Julie Holland --
Original sin / Francine Prose --
Know your place / Molly Ringwald --
Ambition: the Cliffie notes / Joan Leegant --
Doubly denied / Christina Henríquez --
Becoming meta / Hawa Allan --
Letters to my mother and daughters on ambition / Sarah Ruhl.
