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Table of Contents
  • Introduction Part One/Techniques, Devices, and Strategies Richard Russo
  • In Defense of Omniscience Jim Shepard
  • I Know Myself Real Well. That's the Problem Susan Neville
  • Where's Iago? Steven Schwartz
  • Finding a Voice in America Chuck Wachtel
  • Behind the Mask: Narrative Voice in Fiction Joan Silber
  • Weight in Fiction Ehud Havazelet Chekhov and Form Charles Baxter
  • ""You're Really Something"": Inflection and the Breath of Life Debra Spark
  • Getting In and Getting Out: First Words on First (and Last) Words Part Two/Maps and Legends Karen Brennan
  • Dream, Memory, Story, and the Recovery of Narrative Robert Boswell
  • Narrative Spandrels C. J. Hribal
  • The Scene Beast Is Hungry Peter Turchi
  • The Writer as Cartographer Antonya Nelson
  • ""Mom's on the Roof"": The Usefulness of Jokes in Shaping Short Stories Part Three/Facing Up to the Reader Michael Martone
  • Ruining a Story Kevin McIlvoy
  • The Editor Comes Clean at Last (A Tale of One Rejection Letter and One Acceptance Letter to Stephen Crane) Pablo Medina
  • Literature and Democracy Judith Grossman
  • Thinking about a Reader Margot Livesey
  • How to Tell a True Story

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 6/4/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472067749, 978-0472067749
      ISBN10: 0472067745

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      • Introduction Part One/Techniques, Devices, and Strategies Richard Russo
      • In Defense of Omniscience Jim Shepard
      • I Know Myself Real Well. That's the Problem Susan Neville
      • Where's Iago? Steven Schwartz
      • Finding a Voice in America Chuck Wachtel
      • Behind the Mask: Narrative Voice in Fiction Joan Silber
      • Weight in Fiction Ehud Havazelet Chekhov and Form Charles Baxter
      • ""You're Really Something"": Inflection and the Breath of Life Debra Spark
      • Getting In and Getting Out: First Words on First (and Last) Words Part Two/Maps and Legends Karen Brennan
      • Dream, Memory, Story, and the Recovery of Narrative Robert Boswell
      • Narrative Spandrels C. J. Hribal
      • The Scene Beast Is Hungry Peter Turchi
      • The Writer as Cartographer Antonya Nelson
      • ""Mom's on the Roof"": The Usefulness of Jokes in Shaping Short Stories Part Three/Facing Up to the Reader Michael Martone
      • Ruining a Story Kevin McIlvoy
      • The Editor Comes Clean at Last (A Tale of One Rejection Letter and One Acceptance Letter to Stephen Crane) Pablo Medina
      • Literature and Democracy Judith Grossman
      • Thinking about a Reader Margot Livesey
      • How to Tell a True Story

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