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Tables of Contents for Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Credits
x
Introduction
1
8
SECTION 1 Literary Diaries and Journals
9
70
The Journals
11
12
John Cheever
Journal of a Solitude
23
8
May Sarton
``Digressions''
31
8
Gerald Early
``Paris Journal''
39
3
M. F. K. Fisher
Temple
42
8
George Dennison
``From the Journals''
50
16
Gretel Ehrlich
Diary of a Century
66
13
Edward Robb Ellis
SECTION 2 Literary Memoir
79
112
``Snapshot of a Dog''
81
2
James Thurber
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood ``Yonder Peasant, Who Is He?''
83
12
Mary McCarthy
An American Childhood
95
11
Annie Dillard
The Woman Warrior ``No Name Woman''
106
7
Maxine Hong Kingston
``Notes on My Mother''
113
5
Hilton Als
``Tracks and Ties''
118
4
Andre Dubus III
The Kiss
122
8
Kathryn Harrison
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
130
5
Dorothy Allison
Broken Vessels ``Lights of the Long Night''
135
6
Andre Dubus
``Husbands''
137
4
Geography of the Heart
141
2
Fenton Johnson
The Liar's Club
143
13
Mary Karr
``Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy''
156
5
Judy Ruiz
``Sex and Death to the Age 14''
161
15
Spalding Gray
In Pharaoh's Army ``A Federal Offense''
176
10
Tobias Wolff
``The Harvey Pekar Name Story''
186
5
Harvey Pekar
R. Crumb
SECTION 3 The Personal Essay
191
112
``Once More to the Lake''
193
4
E. B. White
Notes of a Native Son ``Equal in Paris''
197
9
James Baldwin
``On Being the Target of Discrimination''
206
5
Ralph Ellison
Womenfolks ``That Old-Time Religion''
211
6
Shirley Abbott
``Country Matters''
217
3
Hayden Carruth
``The Dead Father: A Rememberance of Donald Barthelme''
220
15
Phillip Lopate
``At the University: Little Murders of the Soul''
235
15
Vivian Gornick
``A Small Place''
250
4
Jamaica Kincaid
Waist-High in the World ``Body in Trouble''
254
10
Nancy Mairs
Colored People ``Current Events''
264
6
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
``The Undertaking''
270
5
Thomas Lynch
``This Is What You Need for a Happy Life''
275
11
Jane Shapiro
``Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp''
286
9
Joy Williams
``What Is It We Really Harvestin' Here?''
295
4
Ntozake Shange
``How to Write a Personal Essay''
299
4
Stanton Michaels
SECTION 4 Literary Journalism
303
118
Hiroshima ``The Fire''
305
12
John Hersey
In Cold Blood
317
9
Truman Capote
Dispatches ``Illumination Rounds''
326
10
Michael Herr
The Executioner's Song ``The Turkey Shoot''
336
15
Norman Mailer
Shot in the Heart ``Last Words''
351
13
Mikal Gilmore
What Lisa Knew ``November 1987''
364
6
Joyce Johnson
``Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America''
370
19
Barbara Ehrenreich
``No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch''
389
3
Ann Hodgman
Salvador
392
6
Joan Didion
The Right Stuff ``Yeager''
398
8
Tom Wolfe
Into Thin Air ``Summit, 1:25 p.m., May 10, 1996, 29,028 Feet''
406
8
Jon Krakauer
The Perfect Storm ``The Zero-Moment Point''
414
7
Sebastian Junger
SECTION 5 The Art of the Particular: Creative Nonfiction Classified by Subject
421
3
Nature Writing
Desert Solitaire ``Havasu''
424
5
Edward Abbey
from A Country Year ``Spring''
429
13
Sue Hubbell
Annals of the Former World
442
8
John McPhee
Literary Travel
Questions of Heaven ``Lijiang''
450
15
Gretel Ehrlich
``One Village''
465
11
Naomi Shihab Nye
Mississippi Solo
476
15
Eddy L. Harris
The Science Essay The Hidden Life of Dogs
491
9
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
``The Medusa and the Snail''
500
2
Lewis Thomas
``When Doctors Make Mistakes''
502
15
Atul Gawande
Creative Cultural Criticism
``Music Is My Bag: Confessions of a Lapsed Oboist''
517
8
Meghan Daum
The Silent Woman
525
9
Janet Malcolm
``Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise''
534
David Foster Wallace