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- Introduction: Creative Nonfiction: An Adventure in Lyric, Fact, and Story / Carolyn Forche, Philip Gerard 1 -- I. Art, the Craft, the Business -- Why I Write / Terry Tempest Williams 6 -- But Tell It Slant: From Poetry to Prose and Back Again / Judith Ortiz Cofer 8 -- A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay / Brenda Miller 14 -- Saying Good-Bye to "Once Upon a Time," or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction / Laura Wexler 25 -- Finding a Story, or Using the Whole Pig / Alan Cheuse 34 -- Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself Into a Character / Phillip Lopate 38 -- Researching Your Own Life / Michael Pearson 45 -- Taking Yourself Out of the Story: Narrative Stance and the Upright Pronoun / Philip Gerard 50 -- Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner / Robin Hemley 57 -- As Time Goes By: Creating Biography / Philip Furia 67 -- Twelve Years and Counting: Writing Biography / Honor Moore 85 -- Not the Killing but Why / Beverly Lowry 97 -- Every Hell Is Different: Notes on War Writing / Christopher Merrill 101 -- "New" Literature / Carolyn Forche 104 -- Surviving Overseas / Bob Reiss 114 -- Comfortable Chair: Using Humor in Creative Nonfiction / Dinty W. Moore 122 -- Getting Published / Stanley L. Colbert 130 -- Avoiding Self-Censorship: A Guide to the Detection of Legal Land Mines / Nicholas S. Hentoff, Harvey A. Silverglate 140 -- II. Aftershocks--Responses to the Genre -- Learning to Breathe After the Memoir / E. Ethelbert Miller 158 -- Excerpts From Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer / E. Ethelbert Miller 162 -- One Nation, Under the Weather / Lauren Slater 164 -- Becoming the Godfather of Creative Nonfiction / Lee Gutkind 170 -- III. Creative Nonfiction Reader -- Woman Who Slept With One Eye Open / Judith Ortiz Cofer 182 -- Basha Leah / Brenda Miller 191 -- Excerpt from "Tacos and Manna" / Alan Cheuse 205 -- Portrait of My Body / Phillip Lopate 214 -- What They Don't Tell You About Hurricanes / Philip Gerard 223 -- Excerpt From Irving Berlin: A Life in Song / Philip Furia 230 -- It was a time of hope, that was the thing (1927-1930) / Honor Moore 240 -- Shadow Knows / Beverly Lowry 256 -- All Things Censored: The Poem NPR Doesn't Want You to Hear / Martin Espada 270 -- Prisoner AM-8335: A Postscript / Martin Espada 277 -- Sarajevo I / Christopher Merrill 283 -- Emergence / Carolyn Forche 299 -- Ah, Wilderness! Humans, Hawks, and Environmental Correctness on the Muddy Rio Grande / Dinty W. Moore 307 -- Maps / Julie Checkoway 319 -- Murder / Barry Lopez 327 -- Going Back to Bisbee / Richard Shelton 331 -- Flying in the Middle of Art / Annie Dillard 357.
