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| Introduction | |
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| On Becoming a Writer | |
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| The Seduction of the Text | |
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| The Importance of Childhood | |
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| Looking for the Spark | |
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| How to Identify and Nurture Young Writers | |
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| Touched by an Angel | |
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| The Leap from Necessity to Invention | |
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| A Real-Life Education | |
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| Emerging from Under Your Rejection Slips | |
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| Being a Product of Your Dwelling Place | |
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| Doing It for Love | |
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| Raw Material | |
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| Too Happy for Words | |
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| Using My Father's Story | |
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| Between Origins and Art | |
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| The Writer As Outlaw | |
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| From Memory to the Imagination | |
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| Can Whites Write About Blacks? | |
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| In Praise of Silence | |
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| Bicultural, Adrift, and Wandering | |
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| On Finding a Latino Voice | |
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| Living in Irish, Writing in English | |
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| Hunkering Down | |
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| Holidays at the Keyboard Inn | |
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| The Passionate Researcher | |
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| From Packrat to Historian | |
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| Climbing Into Another Head | |
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| Hunter of Metaphors | |
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| Following the Script | |
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| Headbirths: Bookish Midwifery | |
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| Guided by Voices: The Work of a Ghostwriter | |
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| Old Bottle, New Wine | |
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| From Will-of-the-Wisp to Full-Blown Novel | |
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| Reincarnation, Translation and Adventure | |
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| Master of My Universe | |
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| Sounds and Sensibilities | |
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| Writer with Scalpel | |
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| A Chronicle of the Plague Years | |
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| On Being a Novice Playwright | |
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| Acting Out, Letting Go | |
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| Pen Names Galore | |
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| Summer Lite | |
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| Facing the Facts | |
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| History Is Their Beat: The New Journalist Historians | |
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| A Novel Approach to Reality: Basing a Story in Facts | |
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| Making the Truth Believable | |
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| Describing the World As It Is, Not As It Would Be | |
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| The Political Memoir: Taking Note of History | |
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| President in Search of a Publisher | |
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| Biographer, Get a Life | |
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| From the Clinic | |
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| Notes from the Road | |
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| Natural Selections | |
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| Speaking Up for the Environment | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| The Trouble with Finishing | |
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| The Hardest Critics | |
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| Literary Executions | |
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| Taking It All Back | |
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| Writer, Be Afraid | |
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| In Search of the Next Idea | |
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