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Tables of Contents for The Friday Book
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Title of This Book
vii
4
The Subtitle of This Book
xi
2
Author's Introduction
xiii
2
Table of Contents
xv
2
Epigraphs
xvii
 
Some Reasons Why I Tell the Stories I Tell the Way I Tell Them Rather Than Some Other Sort of Stories Some Other Way
1
12
How to Make a Universe
13
13
More on the Same Subject
26
4
An Afterword to Roderick Random
30
11
Mystery and Tragedy
41
14
Muse, Spare Me
55
5
The Tragic View of Recognition
60
2
The Literature of Exhaustion
62
15
More Troll Than Cabbage
77
3
The Role of the Prosaic in Fiction
80
4
The Ocean of Story
84
7
A Poet to the Rescue
91
6
Aspiration, Inspiration, Respiration, Expiration
97
2
The Tragic View of Literary Prizes
99
2
Praying for Everybody
101
5
Doing the Numbers
106
4
Intelligent Despisal
110
12
Writer's Choice
122
2
Western Wind, Eastern Shore
124
3
The Spirit of Place
127
3
Getting Oriented
130
11
My Two Problems: 1
141
3
My Two Problems: 2
144
7
My Two Problems: 3
151
2
My Two Uncles
153
5
My Two Muses
158
3
The Future of Literature and the Literature of the Future
161
5
Algebra and Fire
166
6
Speaking of LETTERS
172
8
Historical Fiction, Fictitious History, and Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs, or, About Aboutness
180
13
The Literature of Replenishment
193
14
The Self in Fiction, or, "That ain't no matter. That Is nothing."
207
8
Revenge
215
3
Tales Within Tales Within Tales
218
21
The Prose and Poetry of It All, or, Dippy Verses
239
16
The American New Novel
255
3
Don't Count on It
258
24
Afterword: Friday, 1997
282