From the Book + CD - First U.S. edition.
Introduction / Lee Montgomery
Hard up for a hard-on / Steve Almond
When to keep it simple / Rick Bass
Revisioning The great Gatsby / Susan Bell
Character motivation / Aimee Bender
Fairy tale is form, form is fairy tale / Kate Bernheimer
There will be no stories in heaven / Tom Grimes
The mercurial worlds of the mind / Matthea Harvey
Making a scene : fiction's fundamental unit / Anna Keesey
Le mot incorrect / Jim Krusoe
Shakespeare for writers : sixteen lessons / Margot Livesey
Lost in the woods / Antonya Nelson
Performing surgery without anesthesia / Chris Offutt
(Mis)Adventures in poetry / D.A. Powell
The telling that shows : some provocations from inside the story / Peter Rock
Generating fiction from history and/or fact / Jim Shepard.
