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| Introduction: Creative Nonfiction: An Adventure in Lyric, Fact, and Story | |
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| The Art, the Craft, the Business | |
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| Why I Write | |
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| But Tell It Slant: From Poetry to Prose and Back Again | |
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| A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay | |
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| Saying Good-Bye to "Once Upon a Time," or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Finding a Story, or Using the Whole Pig | |
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| Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself Into a Character | |
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| Researching Your Own Life | |
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| Taking Yourself Out of the Story: Narrative Stance and the Upright Pronoun | |
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| The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner | |
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| As Time Goes By: Creating Biography | |
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| Twelve Years and Counting: Writing Biography | |
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| Not the Killing but Why | |
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| Every Hell Is Different: Notes on War Writing | |
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| The "New" Literature | |
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| Surviving Overseas | |
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| The Comfortable Chair: Using Humor in Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Getting Published | |
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| Avoiding Self-Censorship: A Guide to the Detection of Legal Land Mines | |
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| Aftershocks--Responses to the Genre | |
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| Learning to Breathe After the Memoir | |
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| Excerpts From Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer | |
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| One Nation, Under the Weather | |
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| Becoming the Godfather of Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Creative Nonfiction Reader | |
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| The Woman Who Slept With One Eye Open | |
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| Basha Leah | |
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| Excerpt from "Tacos and Manna" | |
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| Portrait of My Body | |
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| What They Don't Tell You About Hurricanes | |
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| Excerpt From Irving Berlin: A Life in Song | |
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| It was a time of hope, that was the thing (1927-1930) | |
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| The Shadow Knows | |
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| All Things Censored: The Poem NPR Doesn't Want You to Hear | |
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| Prisoner AM-8335: A Postscript | |
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| Sarajevo I | |
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| Emergence | |
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| Ah, Wilderness! Humans, Hawks, and Environmental Correctness on the Muddy Rio Grande | |
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| Maps | |
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| Murder | |
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| Going Back to Bisbee | |
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| Flying in the Middle of Art | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |