The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction Book

	Alternative Contents: Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction
	Preface: Beginning the Conversation
	Introduction: Creative Nonfiction, the Fourth Genre
Pt. 1	Writing Creative Nonfiction	1
	Oh Say Can You See?	5
	The Unwanted Child	11
	Silent Dancing	21
	Running the Table	28
	Aerial Reconnaissance	33
	Living Like Weasels	41
	From a Sheepherder's Notebook: Three Days	44
	Parish Streets	48
	Can an Ape Tell a Joke?	55
	Fraternity	65
	Where Worlds Collide	69
	On the Bubble	79
	Portrait of My Body	91
	Carnal Acts	98
	From Birnam Wood to Dunsinane	106
	From Outside, In	112
	Amid Onions and Oranges, a Boy Becomes a Man	121
	Celibate Passions	123
	Three Pokes of a Thistle	128
	Animal Allies	132
	Late Victorians	137
	Designs for Escape	149
	Cloud Crossing	155
	Pliny and the Mountain Mouse	160
	The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold	166
	In the Combat Zone	170
	I Stand Here Writing	176
	Trading Off: A Memoir	184
	Vessel of Last Resort	200
	Seven Wonders	207
	At the Buffalo Bill Museum, June 1988	212
	Going to the Movies	226
	Fireworks to Praise a Homemade Day	229
	The Friendship Tarot	237
Pt. 2	Talking about Creative Nonfiction	243
	Late Night Thoughts on Writing and Teaching Essays	245
	The Landscape of Creative Nonfiction	252
	The Art of Memoir	259
	The Faith	263
	To Fashion a Text	270
	About Personal Expressive Academic Writing	279
	On the Possibilities of the Essay: A Meditation	290
	Memory and Imagination	297
	Courting the Approval of the Dead	306
	Excavations	319
	Everything But the Truth?	327
	What We Didn't Know We Knew	330
	What Happened to the Personal Essay?	337
	'Creative Nonfiction': What's in a Name?	345
	One Writer's Secrets	351
	College, Montage, Mosaic, Vignette, Episode, Segment	358
	The Singular First Person	369
	The Exact Location of the Soul	378
	Me and My Shadow	382
	Experimental Critical Writing	396
Pt. 3	Composing Creative Nonfiction	401
	Warping Time with Montaigne	405
	Notes from a Journey toward 'Warping Time'	411
	That Shining Place: Crete, 1966	419
	Afterword: Writing 'The Greece Piece'	428
	Teacher Training	434
	Composing 'Teacher Training'	440
	Zion	447
	On Writing 'Zion'	454
	Alternative Contents: Approaches to Writing and Discussing Creative Nonfiction	459
	Index	463