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Index
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
I. The Writing Life
Is the Uninspired Life Worth Living?
This I Believe: Five Motives for Writing
Anatomy of Story
The Writing Room
II. Classics
My Life in Middlemarch: Rebecca Mead
Charles Dickens: A Life: Claire Tomalin
“The King of Weird”: H. P. Lovecraft
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Simenons
Two American Prose Masters: Ellison, Updike
A Visit with Doris Lessing (1973)
III. Contemporaries
The Childhood of Jesus: J. M. Coetzee
The Detective as Visionary: Derek Raymond
“Catastrophe into Art”: Julian Barnes
“When the Legend Becomes Fact”: Larry McMurtry
Paper Losses: Lorrie Moore
Emotions of Man and Animals: Karen Joy Fowler
Wiindigoo Justice: Louise Erdrich
In Other Worlds: Margaret Atwood
The Storyteller of the “Shattered Personality”: Patrick McGrath
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?: Jeanette Winterson
Diminished Things: Anne Tyler
Smiling Woman: Margaret Drabble
The Inventions of Jerome Charyn
“After Auschwitz”: Martin Amis
London NW: Zadie Smith
Joan Didion: Risk and Triumph
Unflinching about Women: The Short Stories of Lucia Berlin
Edna O’Brien: The Little Red Chairs
“Disputed Truth”: Mike Tyson
The Fighter: A Film by David O. Russell
The Mystery of Muhammad Ali
IV. Real Life
A Visit to San Quentin (2011)
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Nonfiction by Joyce Carol Oates
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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