<p style="MARGIN: 0px">Alternative Table of Contents: Forms and Processes of Creative Nonfiction </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Preface: Beginning the Conversation </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction: Creative Nonfiction, The Fourth Genre </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Part 1. Writing Creative Nonfiction</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Jo Ann Beard, “Out There” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Eula Biss and John Bresland, “Ode to Everything” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robin Black, “The Answer That Increasingly Appeals” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Michelle Bliss, “Fiction” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Lisa Groen Braner, “Soundtrack” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*John Bresland, “Les Cruel Shoes” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Shari Caudron, “Befriending Barbie” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Steven Church, “I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Silent Dancing” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Edwidge Danticat, “A Little While” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Meghan Daum, “On the Fringes of the Physical World” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Matt Farwell, “Welcome to Afghanistan” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*David Gessner, “Into the Gulf: A Journal–Day 10: Beyond the Oiled Pelican” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Dagoberto Gilb, “Northeast Direct” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Vivian Gornick, “On the Bus” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Patricia Hampl, “Red Sky at Morning” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Jennifer Kahn, “Stripped for Parts” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Jonathan Lethem, “13,1977, 21” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Phillip Lopate, “Portrait of My Body” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Nancy Lord, “I Met a Man Who Has Seen the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">and This Is What He Told Me” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Debra Marquart, “Some Things About That Day” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Maggie McKnight, “Mother’s Day” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John McPhee, “The Search for Marvin Gardens” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Ander Monson, “Geas” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Tom Montgomery-Fate, “In Plain Sight” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Michele Morano, “Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Lia Purpura, “Glaciology” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chet Raymo, “Celebrating Creation” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert L. Root, Jr., “Knowing Where You’ve Been” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Shelley Salamensky, “Postcards from Birobidzhan” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Scott Russell Sanders, “Cloud Crossing” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mimi Schwartz, “My Father Always Said” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Tracy Seeley, “An E-Book is Not a Book, In Which I Launch the Slow Book Movement” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Sherry Simpson, “Natural History, or What Happens When We’re Not Looking” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Michael Steinberg, “Chin Music” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Joni Tevis, “Everything But Your Wits” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Judith Thurman, “Spreading the Word” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Kate Torgovnick, “How I Became a Bed-Maker” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Kathryn Winograd, “Bathing”</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Part 2. Talking About Creative Nonfiction</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Jocelyn Bartkevicius, “The Landscape of Nonfiction” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mary Clearman Blew, “The Art of Memoir” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*John Bresland, “On the Origins of the Video Essay” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Roger Ebert, “I Think I’m Musing My Mind” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Vivian Gornick, “A Narrator Leaps Past Journalism” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Patricia Hampl, “Memory and Imagination” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Steven Harvey, “The Art of Self” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sonya Huber, “How Do I Write” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Tracy Kidder, “Courting the Approval of the Dead” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Judith Kitchen, “Mending Wall” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Carl H. Klaus, “Days into Essays: A Self for All Seasons” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Brenda Miller, “ ‘Brenda Miller Has a Cold,’ or, How the Lyric Essay Happens” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Laura Miller, “How to Live: Grandfather of the Writing We Love to Hate” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert L. Root, Jr., “Collage, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Peggy Shumaker, “Prose Poems, Paragraphs, Brief Lyric Nonfiction” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Michael Steinberg, “Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Marianna Torgovnick, “Experimental Critical Writing” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Kathryn Winograd, “(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Part 3. Composing Creative Nonfiction</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Abigail Moore Allerding, “Home” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Abigail Moore Allerding, “Unwrapping Surprise in the Personal Essay” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Emily Chase, “Warping Time with Montaigne” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Emily Chase, “Notes from a Journey toward ‘Warping Time’” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Valerie Due, “Lambing Midwife” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*Valerie Due, “Gestating Memory: Capturing Narrative Details in ‘Lambing Midwife’” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mary Elizabeth Pope, “Teacher Training” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mary Elizabeth Pope, “Composing ‘Teacher Training’” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Maureen Stanton, “Zion” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Maureen Stanton, “On Writing ‘Zion’” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Notes on Authors </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Credits </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Index </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">*New to this edition</p>