From the Book - 1st Free Press trade paperback ed.
I. The Craft of Personal Narrative
The State of Nonfiction Today
On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character
Reflection and Retrospection: A Pedagogic Mystery Story
Imagination Thin and Thick
Facts Have Implications: or, Is Nonfiction Really Fiction?
On the Ethics of Writing about Others
The Essay: Exploration or Argument?
The Made-Up Self: On the Difficulty of Turning Oneself into a Character
Research and Personal Writing
The Personal Essay in the Age of Facebook
II. Studies of Practitioners
How I Became an Emersonian
Edward Hoagland: The Dean of American Essayists
The Memoir and Its Critics: Two Takes