From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / Will Blythe
At the point of my pen / Norman Mailer
Uncanny the singing that comes from certain husks / Joy Williams
Where does writing come from? / Richard Ford
I am a ... Genius! / Thom Jones
Some for glory, some for praise / James Salter
That's what dogs do / Amy Hempel
Writing and a life lived well: notes on Allan Gurganus / Ann Patchett
Easing my heart inside / Terry McMillan
Why the daily writing of fiction matters / Rich Bass
Phobia and composition / Rick Moody & Margaret F.M. Davis
Secret agent / Denis Johnson
The lousy rider / Elizabeth Gilbert
Writing / William Vollmann
For the money / Mark Jacobson
Why I write / Stephen Wright
Everything else falls away / Lee Smith
The nature of the fun / David Foster Wallace
Why I write, or not / Jim Harrison
The wolf in the tail grass / Mary Gaitskill
Rent retards the revolution! / Darius James
The war we can't win, we can't lose, we can't quit / Barry Hannah
Collecting myself / Tom Chiarella
Why she writes / Jayne Anne Phillips
In silence / Robert Stone
Who is that man tied to the mast? / Mark Richard.