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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Part One 1983–1989
1: Review: The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
2: Laughter Vs. Death
3: Review: Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
4: That Certain Thing Called the Girlfriend
5: True North
6: Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison
7: Afterword: A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
8: Great Aunts
9: Introduction: Reading Blind
The Voice of the Story, the Story As Voice
The Uncertainty Principle
Down To Specifics
10: Introduction: Women Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, George Plimpton, Editor
11: Review: The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
12: Writing Utopia
Part Two 1990–1999
13: Nine Beginings
1. Why Do You Write?
2. Why Do You Write?
3. Why Do You Write?
4. Why Do You Write?
5. Why Do You Write?
6. Why Do You Write?
7. Why Do You Write?
8. Why Do You Write?
9. Why Do You Write?
14: Review: The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel GarcíA MáRquez
15: Afterword: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
16: Why I Love the Night of the Hunter, A Film by Charles Laughton
17: Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems of Female Bad Behavior in the Creation of Literature
18: The Grunge Look
19: Review: From the Beast To the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner
20: Review: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
21: Review: An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
22: In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction
Notes
23: Review: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art 2Nd the Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde
Part Three 2000–2005
24: First Job, Waitressing
25: Eulogy: Mordecai Richler ,1931-2001: Diogenes of Montreal
26: Review: According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
27: Introduction: She by H. Rider Haggard
Sources
28: When Afghanistan Was At Peace
29: Review: The Selected Letters ofdashiell Hammett, 1921”1960 Edited by Richard Layman With Julie M. Rivett Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers by Jo Hammett, Edited by Richard Layman With Julie M. Rivett Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings Selected and Edited by Steven Marcus
Notes
30: Review: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, A Film by Zacharias Kunuk
31: Review: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
32: Review: Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard
Notes
33: Eulogy: Tiff and the Animals1
34: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf
35: Review: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
36: Introduction: Ground Works, Christian Bok, Editor
37: Introduction : Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg
38: Introduction: High Latitudes by Farley Mowat
39: Review: Child of My Heart by Alice Mcdermott
40: Napoleon’S Two Biggest Mistakes
41: Letter To America
42: Writing Oryx and Crake
43: George Orwell: Some Personal Connections
44: Review: Enough: Staying Human in An Engineered Age by Bill Mckibben
45: Foreword: Victory Gardens: A Breath of Fresh Air by Elise Houghton
46: Eulogy: Carol Shields, Who Died Last Week, Wrote Books That Were Full of Delights
47: Review: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
48: Introduction: The Complete Stones, Volume 4 by Morley Callaghan
Notes
49: Review: Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel
50: Mortifications
Early Period
Middle Period
Modern Period
51: Review: A Story As Sharp As A Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and their World by Robert Bringhurst
52: Review: The Mays of Ventadorn by W. S. Merwin
53: Review: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
54: Review: From Eve To Dawn by Marilyn French
55: To Beechy Island
56: Introduction: Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition [Revised Edition] by Owen Beattie and John Geiger
57: Review: Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark by Christopher Dewdney
58: Introduction: Ten Ways of Looking At the Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Ten Ways of Looking At the Island of Doctor Moreau
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Part One: 1983–1989
Part Two: 1990–1999
Part Three: 2000–2005
Index
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