CONTENTS

Prologue

1. Exploring the Territory

2. Follow the Heat — Beginning, again

3. The Importance of Madeleines — Remembering

4. The Storyteller’s Seat — Narrating position

5. Making Tapestry — Texture and detail

6. Finding Form — Structural troubleshooting

7. The magic spell — Narrative

8. True Confessions — Truth-telling

9. The Big ‘I’ — Self-indulgence and context

10. Wish You Were Here — Travel writing

11. Random Provocations — The personal essay

12. Borderlands — Memoir and fiction

13. A Reiteration

Reading List

Acknowledgements