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| Alternative Contents: Forms and Processes 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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| �Out There� | |
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| �Ode to Every Thing� | |
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| �The Answer That Increasingly Appeals� | |
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| �Fiction� | |
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| �Soundtrack� | |
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| �Les Cruel Shoes� | |
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| �Befriending Barbie� | |
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| �I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part� | |
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| �Silent Dancing� | |
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| �A Little While� | |
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| �On the Fringes of the Physical World� | |
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| �Welcome to Afghanistan� | |
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| �Into the Gulf: A Journal-Day 10: Beyond the Oiled Pelican� | |
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| �Northeast Direct� | |
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| �On the Bus� | |
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| �Red Sky at Morning� | |
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| �Stripped for Parts� | |
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| �13,1977,21� | |
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| �Portrait of My Body� | |
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| �I Met a Man Who Has Seen the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and This Is What He Told Me� | |
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| �Some Things About That Day� | |
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| �Mother's Day� | |
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| �The Search for Marvin Gardens� | |
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| �Geas� | |
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| �In Plain Sight� | |
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| �Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood� | |
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| �Glaciology� | |
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| �Celebrating Creation� | |
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| �Knowing Where You've Been� | |
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| �Postcards from Birobidzhan: The Life & Death & Life of the Jewish Autonomous Republic� | |
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| �Cloud Crossing� | |
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| �My Father Always Said� | |
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| �An E-Book Is Not a Book, In Which I Launch the Slow Book Movement� | |
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| �Natural History, or What Happens When We're Not Looking� | |
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| �Chin Music� | |
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| �Everything But Your Wits� | |
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| �Spreading the Word� | |
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| �How I Became a Bed-Maker� | |
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| �Bathing� | |
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| Talking About Creative Nonfiction | |
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| �The Landscape of Creative Nonfiction� | |
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| �The Art of Memoir� | |
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| �On the Origin of the Video Essay� | |
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| �I Think I'm Musing My Mind� | |
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| �A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism� | |
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| �Memory and Imagination� | |
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| �The Art of Self� | |
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| �The Digital Essay: An Introduction� | |
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| �Courting the Approval of the Dead� | |
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| �Mending Wall� | |
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| �Days into Essays: A Self for All Seasons� | |
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| �'Brenda Miller Has a Cold,' or: How the Lyric Essay Happens� | |
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| �How to Live: Grandfather of the Writing We Love to Hate� | |
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| �Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment� | |
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| �Prose Poems, Paragraphs, Brief Lyric Nonfiction� | |
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| �Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays� | |
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| �Experimental Critical Writing� | |
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| �(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay� | |
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| Composing Creative Nonfiction | |
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| �Home� | |
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| �Unwrapping Surprises in the Personal Essay� | |
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| �Warping Time with Montaigne� | |
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| �Notes from a Journey Toward 'Warping Time'� | |
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| �Lambing Midwife� | |
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| �Gestating Memory: Capturing Narrative Details in 'Lambing Midwife'� | |
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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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| Notes on Authors | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |