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6 /
The Essay and Form, Introduction, Robert Stewart |
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E
S S A Y S |
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10 / On Being Cool, Laurence Gonzales |
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36 /
Soldier Son, Janet Burroway |
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49 /
The Trapezoidal Mind, William H. Gass |
| 61 /
Charles the Obscure, Charles Simic |
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69 /
9/11: The View from Grammercy, Kathrin Perutz |
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82
/ The Silence, Elmaz Abinader |
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96
/ Filing N-400 for Naturalization, Judy Ray |
| 105
/ The Boy Who Ran Through Europe, Conger Beasley Jr. |
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120
/ Riding the Dog, Thomas E. Kennedy |
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133
/ Striptease, Lauren Slater |
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153
/ Stories of Water, Linda Hogan |
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162 / The Shadow of Her Smile, Donn Irving |
| 172
/ Jungle Fever: Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels, the Cold
War, and Jamaica, Gerald Early |
| 199
/ Oval Ovaries, Flowering Tubes: Another Infant Autopsy,
Gail Waldstein |
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208
/ A Brief History of Hair, Alyce Miller |
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215
/ How Many of You Are There in the Quartet?, Brian Doyle |
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Things Not Seen in a Rear-View Mirror, Debra Marquart |
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255 / My Father's Image, Hilary Masters |
| 263 /
Woman in Front of the Sun, Judith Ortiz Cofer |
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274 / Subject: Robert Graves, Random Notes of a
Biographer, James McKinley |
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A
R T W O R K |
| William
Christenberry, oil on canvas, front & back covers |
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| 299 /
Visitor's Log: The New Letters Guest Book |
| 300 /
New Programs: New Letters on the Air |
| 302
/ Acknowledgments |
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303
/ William Christenberry, Cover Artist, Biographical Note |
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