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Tables of Contents for Not-Knowing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
ON WRITING
After Joyce
3
8
Not-Knowing
11
16
HERE IN THE VILLAGE
27
28
Introduction
27
1
"Walking around the Village..."
28
3
"I have lately noticed..."
31
1
"A fable..."
32
2
"After spending an exciting eight or nine days..."
34
2
"I like to think of myself..."
36
1
"I went last week..."
37
2
"In the morning post..."
39
2
"There is something..."
41
3
"Letter to a literary critic:..."
44
2
"Worrying about women..."
46
2
"Because the government isn't very good..."
48
2
"Spring in the Village!..."
50
5
REVIEWS, COMMENTS, AND OBSERVATIONS
55
110
Acceptance Speech: National Book Award for Children's Literature
55
1
On "Paraguay"
56
2
A Symposium on Fiction (with William Gass, Grace Paley, and Walker Percy)
58
25
Mr. Hunt's Wooly Utopia
83
3
The Tired Terror of Graham Greene
86
5
The Elegance Is Under Control
91
3
Amphigorey Also: A Review
94
3
The Most Wonderful Trick
97
2
A Note on Elia Kazan
99
5
The Earth as an Overturned Bowl
104
4
Parachutes in the Trees
108
4
Special Devotions
112
3
Dead Men Comin' Through
115
5
Three Festivals
120
5
Peculiar Influences
125
4
Earth Angel
129
3
Culture, Etc.
132
4
The Case of the Vanishing Product
136
4
Synergy
140
10
"President Nixon's announcement..."
150
1
"My ten-year-old daughter..."
151
3
As Grace Paley Faces Jail with Three Other Writers
154
2
"Not long ago..."
156
2
"There's alleged..."
158
2
Rome Diary
160
5
ON ART
165
34
Architectural Graphics: An Introduction
165
3
The Emerging Figure
168
2
Robert Morris: An Introduction
170
3
Jim Love Up to Now: An Introduction
173
5
Nudes: An Introduction to Exquisite Creatures
178
6
Being Bad
184
3
Reifications
187
3
On the Level of Desire
190
9
INTERVIEWS WITH DONALD BARTHELME
199
122
Interview with Jerome Klinkowitz, 1971-72
199
8
Interview with Charles Ruas and Judith Sherman, 1975
207
54
Interview with Larry McCaffery, 1980
261
13
Interview with J. D. O'Hara, 1981
274
19
Interview with Jo Brans: "Embracing the World," 1981
293
16
Interview with Billie Fitzpatrick, 1987
309
6
Interview with Bobbie Roe, 1988
315
6
Notes
321