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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Let the Blurring Begin | |
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| The Structure of Trouble | |
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| On "The Structure of Trouble": Fitting Function to Form | |
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| The Eighteenth Week | |
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| On "The Eighteenth Week": On Point of View | |
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| Time and Distance Overcome | |
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| On "Time and Distance Overcome": The Rewards of Research | |
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| An Essay and a Story about M�tley Cr�e | |
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| On "An Essay and a Story about M�tley Cr�e": Knowing One's Audience and Making Your Dreams Come True | |
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| Dazzle | |
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| On "Dazzle": The Fluidity of Boundaries | |
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| Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado | |
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| On "Thirty Minutes to the End: An Essay to My Aunt Judy on the Occasion of the May 4, 2007, Tornado": Rethinking Genre | |
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| Bait | |
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| On "Bait": The Hybridity of Form | |
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| Salvos into the World of Hummers | |
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| On "Salvos into the World of Hummers": The Convergence of Subject and Style | |
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| Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process | |
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| On "Flagpole Wedding, Coshocton, Ohio, 1946: An Essay on Process": Transitioning from Notes to Novel | |
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| Whistling in the Dark | |
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| On "Whistling in the Dark": When Telling Lies Reveals Truth | |
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| 71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility | |
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| On "71 Fragments for a Chronology of Possibility": An Eight-Fragment, Five-Paragraph Essay | |
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| Headaches | |
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| On "Headaches": Articulating the Inexplicable | |
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| Asymmetry | |
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| On "Asymmetry": The Typewriter Is Not a Typewriter | |
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| Outline toward a Theory of the Mine versus the Mind and the Harvard Outline | |
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| Outline toward a Reflection on the Outline and the Splitting of the Atom, I Mean the Colorado River, I Mean Our Collective Attentions, or Maybe I Mean the Brain, Which Is Mostly Forks, You Know | |
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| Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth in Personal Memoir and Securing That Blockbuster Book Deal | |
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| On "Four Essential Tips for Telling the Truth …": Implementing Exaggeration and Humor | |
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| A Visit to the Doctor | |
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| On "A Visit to the Doctor": The Omission of i | |
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| Contra | |
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| On "Contra": Nostalgia and the Shared Experience | |
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| Squirrel: An Ars Portica | |
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| On "Squirrel: An Ars Poetica": Starting in One Place and Ending in Another | |
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| Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions about a Dying Art | |
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| On "Why I Hope My Soap Opera Will Outlive Me and Other Confessions about a Dying Art": Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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| Monster | |
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| On "Monster": The Immersion Effect | |
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| Writing Exercises | |
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| Contributors | |