Curious attractions: essays on fiction writing

The trigger : what gives rise to a story?

Getting in and getting out : first words on first (and last) words

Speaking of style

Cry, cry, cry : handling emotion in fiction

Curious attractions : magical realism's fate in the states

Aspects of the short novel

Border guard : fabulism in Stuart Dybek's "Hot ice"

Stand back

Cheer up, why don't you?