Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue
  6. One: Peter Matthiessen, RIP
  7. Two: Amy Hempel, Good Witch of Manhattan
  8. Three: Gordon Lish, Captain Fiction
  9. Four: Denis Johnson, a Long Time Clean
  10. Five: Doug Peacock, Hayduke Still Lives
  11. Six: David Sedaris, Trash Collector Extraordinaire
  12. Seven: John Berger, Old Man of the Mountains
  13. Eight: Gary Snyder and the Road to Kitkitdizze
  14. Nine: Russell Chatham, the Painter, Recently Hospitalized, Emerges from Seven-Figure Debt and Alcoholism, Ready to Paint
  15. Ten: Barry Lopez, Carnivore for a Night
  16. Eleven: Tom McGuane, AKA Captain Berserko: Burning Down the House
  17. Twelve: Lorrie Moore, Fairy Godmother: The Road to the Corn Palace; or, The Trail of Ears
  18. Thirteen: The Road Home
  19. Fourteen: Joyce Carol Oates, Badass
  20. Fifteen: Terry Tempest Williams, Red-Rock Solid
  21. Sixteen: Mississippi Ghosts
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Discover More Rick Bass
  24. About the Author
  25. Also by Rick Bass

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