From the Book - 1st ed., a Vintage contemporaries original ed.
Uncollected stories: Kindling --
What would you like to see? --
Call if you need me. Five essays and a meditation: My father's life --
John Gardener: The writer as teacher --
Meditation on a line from Saint Teresa. Early stories: Furious seasons --
Bright red apples. Fragment of a novel. From The Augustine notebooks. Occasions: On "Neighbors" --
On "Drinking while driving" --
On the Dostoevsky screenplay --
On "Bobber" and other poems --
On Where I'm calling from. Introductions: Steering by the stars --
Fiction of occurrence and consequence (with Tom Jenks) --
On contemporary fiction --
On longer stories . Book reviews: Big fish, mythical fish --
Barthelme's inhuman comedies --
Bluebird mornings, storm warnings --
A gifted novelist at the top of his game --
Fiction that throws light on blackness --
Brautigan serves werewolf berries and cat cantaloupe --
McGuane goes after big game --
Richard Ford's stark vision of loss, healing --
A retired acrobat falls under the spell of a teenage girl --
"Fame is no good, take it from me" --
Coming of age, going to pieces.
