What Madness Prompts, Reason Writes: New York City September 11-October 2, 2001.

This personal narrative describes the use of ethnographic data collection as a means for its author, a New York City resident, to take stock of local reaction and response to the events of September 11 by documenting arid analyzing the writing New Yorkers posted in public spaces during the three weeks following the attacks on the World Trade Center. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]