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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Part I
Uncensored Sylvia Plath
“Restoring” Willie Stark
Catherizing Willa
Merciless Highsmith
“Glutton for Punishment”: Richard Yates
“Not a Nice Person”: Muriel Spark
Part II
Irish Elegy: William Trevor
“Our Cheapened Dreams”: E. L. Doctorow
“Despair of Living”: Anita Brookner
An Artist of the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro
“City of Light”: Robert Drewe’s The Shark Net
L.A. Noir: Michael Connelly
Ringworm Belt: Memoirs by Mary Karr
Evolutionary Fever: Andrea Barrett’s Servants of the Map
“New Memoir”: Alice Sebold’s Lucky
Property Of: Valerie Martin’s Property
Programmed by Art: David Lodge’s Thinks…
Ghosts: Hilary Mantel
An Endangered Species: Short Stories
News from Everywhere: Short Stories
Mythmaking Realist: Pat Barker
Crazy for Love: Scott Spencer’s A Ship Made of Paper
Amateurs: Anne Tyler’s The Amateur Marriage
Memoirs of Crisis: Ann Patchett’s Truth & Beauty
Part III
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
“Tragic Mulatta”: Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter
Ernest Hemingway
“You Are the We of Me”: Carson McCullers
Remembering Robert Lowell
“About Whom Nothing Is Known”: Balthus
In the Ring and Out: Jack Johnson
Muhammad Ali: “The Greatest”
Part IV
The Vampire’s Secret: (Re)viewing Tod Browning’s Dracula after Forty Years
Don DeLillo’s Americana (1971) Revisited
Them Revisited
A Garden of Earthly Delights Revisited
On the Composition of I Lock My Door Upon Myself
Private Writings, Public Betrayals
Pilgrimage to Walden Pond: 1962, 2003
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by Joyce Carol Oates
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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