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| Alternative Contents: Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Preface: Beginning the Conversation | |
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| Introduction: Creative Nonfiction, the Fourth Genre | |
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| Writing Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Oh Say Can You See? | |
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| The Unwanted Child | |
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| Silent Dancing | |
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| Running the Table | |
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| Aerial Reconnaissance | |
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| Living Like Weasels | |
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| From a Sheepherder's Notebook: Three Days | |
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| Parish Streets | |
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| Can an Ape Tell a Joke? | |
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| Fraternity | |
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| Where Worlds Collide | |
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| On the Bubble | |
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| Portrait of My Body | |
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| Carnal Acts | |
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| From Birnam Wood to Dunsinane | |
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| From Outside, In | |
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| Amid Onions and Oranges, a Boy Becomes a Man | |
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| Celibate Passions | |
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| Three Pokes of a Thistle | |
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| Animal Allies | |
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| Late Victorians | |
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| Designs for Escape | |
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| Cloud Crossing | |
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| Pliny and the Mountain Mouse | |
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| The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold | |
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| In the Combat Zone | |
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| I Stand Here Writing | |
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| Trading Off: A Memoir | |
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| Vessel of Last Resort | |
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| Seven Wonders | |
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| At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988 | |
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| Going to the Movies | |
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| Fireworks to Praise a Homemade Day | |
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| The Friendship Tarot | |
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| Talking about Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Late Night Thoughts on Writing and Teaching Essays | |
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| The Landscape of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| The Art of Memoir | |
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| The Faith | |
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| To Fashion a Text | |
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| About Personal Expressive Academic Writing | |
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| On the Possibilities of the Essay: A Meditation | |
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| Memory and Imagination | |
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| Courting the Approval of the Dead | |
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| Excavations | |
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| Everything But the Truth? | |
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| What We Didn't Know We Knew | |
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| What Happened to the Personal Essay? | |
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| 'Creative Nonfiction': What's in a Name? | |
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| One Writer's Secrets | |
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| College, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment | |
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| The Singular First Person | |
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| The Exact Location of the Soul | |
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| Me and My Shadow | |
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| Experimental Critical Writing | |
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| Composing Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Warping Time with Montaigne | |
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| Notes from a Journey toward 'Warping Time' | |
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| That Shining Place: Crete, 1966 | |
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| Afterword: Writing 'The Greece Piece' | |
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| Teacher Training | |
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| Composing 'Teacher Training' | |
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| Zion | |
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| On Writing 'Zion' | |
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| Alternative Contents: Approaches to Writing and Discussing Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Index | |