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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
PART ONE: LIFE
The Middle Way
The Shakespeare Group
How Books Still Change Our Lives
Casting My Lot with the Gypsies
The Consolations of Art
The Only Constant Is Change, and Yet, I Still Won’t Use a Computer
How I Got Stronger and Smarter Instead of Stupider and Sadder
PART TWO: WRITING
How I Wrote a Book of Short Stories in Three Months
Living in New York City
The Sinking Ship
Breaking the Rules
In the Weather of the Heart
A Writer Should Be Able to Write Anything
Everyone Wants to Be a Writer
“You Always Use Setbacks to Help You Play Better”
Write What You Know
Choosing the Books
Learning to Teach Writing by Watching a Great Dance Teacher
Crisis in the Creative Writing Program
Everyone Thinks They Are a Writer
Why Is Rewriting So Hard?
Sunday Morning
Eudora Welty
Another Hard Thing for a Writer to Learn to Handle
How I Invented Traceleen
How to Move Characters from One Place to Another
How to Become Inspired
Decons
Learning to Teach
The War with the Squirrels
What They Write About
PART THREE: TEACHING
Teaching, A Journal
Teaching, A Journal (Continued)
My Third Year
Worrying
Students
The Ice Storm
Creative Nonfiction (as Fiction)
The Semester from Hell
Drunks, Dope Addicts, and Losers, Characters My Students Give Me
How Can I Help These Students Learn to Write?
Onward
Hitting a Snag in the Teaching Game
Rip Van Winkle and the Unwanted Wings
Teaching, A Journal (Continued)
After Six Weeks of Classes
The Geology Field Trip
Monday at Dawn
The Big Question
The Tar Baby
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