John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University and former chair of the Writing Seminars. His books include American Hieroglyphics, The Mystery to a Solution, and Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge, all available from Johns Hopkins. Jean McGarry is chair of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Dream Date, Gallagher's Travels, Home at Last, The Very Rich Hours, and Airs of Providence,all available from Johns Hopkins.
Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
From World Like a Knife (1991): Her Book | p. 1 |
From And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story (1987): Zorro | p. 16 |
From Drowned Moon (2001): Marsh | p. 28 |
From Remind Me to Murder You Later (1988): Thirty-six Miracles of Lyndon Johnson | p. 44 |
From Fear of Blue Skies (1998): Bodysurfing | p. 54 |
From Wingtips (1999): Powerman | p. 66 |
From Da Vinci's Bicycle (1979): A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg | p. 85 |
From Cake (2003): Counterfactuals | p. 119 |
From Time to Go (1984): Time to Go | p. 123 |
From How Aliens Think (1999): "Rovera" | p. 138 |
From What Goes without Saying (1996): On the Island | p. 150 |
From I Am Dangerous (1996): Hemingway's Cats | p. 165 |
From Basepaths (1995): Basepaths | p. 187 |
From Safety Patrol (1988): The Safety Patrol | p. 198 |
From Crazy Women (1985): Haunted by Name Our Ignorant Lips | p. 215 |
From Dream Date (2002): The Last Time | p. 235 |
From In the Air (1991): Six Ways of Looking at Farming | p. 243 |
From Lithuania (1990): West Baltimore | p. 251 |
From Everything You've Heard Is True (1989): History | p. 263 |
From The Book of Lost Fathers (2001): Hard Times | p. 278 |
Afterword | p. 295 |
List of Contributors | p. 299 |
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