Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I and Eye Book

	Picking plums	11
	Somehow form a family	17
	Mirrorings	23
	Biography of a dress	30
	The gangster we are all looking for	35
	From Brothers and keepers	43
	Secret ceremonies of love and death	48
	Meet the shaggs	52
	Yeager from The right stuff	59
	Making the truth believable	67
	On the necessity of turning oneself into a character	69
	The singular first person	73
	Silent dancing	83
	Westbury Court	89
	Field trips	92
	Coming home again	95
	The undertaking	102
	Thank you in Arabic	108
	The search for Marvin Gardens	117
	Saturday night, and Sunday morning	124
	What he said there	130
	A literary pilgrim progresses to the past	133
	From The situation and the story	136
	Notes from the road	140
	Music is my bag	145
	Steinbeck	152
	Celebrity dreaming	154
	The drama bug	160
	The necessity of poetry	166
	Cinematypes : going to the movies	173
	Graven images	176
	Language literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective	179
	Fast art	185
	Reviewing Anne Frank	189
	Toward a definition of creative nonfiction	194
	She : portrait of the essay as a warm body	200
	The solace of open spaces	209
	The courage of turtles	216
	The bats	220
	The resurrectionist	223
	Wild in the woods : confessions of a demented man	229
	The clan of one-breasted women	236
	The psychopharmacology of chocolate	242
	Final cut	245
	A biological homage to Mickey Mouse	253
	Seeing	260
	Landscape and narrative	271
	Life is a narrative	275
	From Two or three things i know for sure	283
	The female body	288
	Life with daughters : watching the Miss America pegeant	290
	No name woman	302
	Two ways to belong in America	309
	Becoming what we're called	311
	Invisible man	314
	Illumination rounds	325
	From AIDS and its metaphors	335
	On keeping a notebook	340
	Getting ready from Nickel and dimed	345
	The creative nonfiction police	349
App. I	Writing prompts	355