Introduction: Notes for young writers / Annie Dillard
The creative nonfiction police? / Lee Gutkind
Three spheres / Lauren Slater
Looking at Emmett Till / John Edgar Wideman
An album quilt / John McPhee
Dinner at Uncle Boris's / Charles Simic
Prayer dogs / Terry Tempest Williams
What is it we really harvestin' here? / Ntozake Shange
The Brown stody / Richard Rodriguez
Killing wolves / Sherry Simpson
Being Brians / Brian Doyle
Language at play / Diane Ackerman
Finders keepers: the story of Joey Coyle / Mark Bowden
Notes from a difficult case / Ruthann Robson
Adventures in celestial navigation / Philip Gerard
Leaving Babylon: a walk through the Jewish divorce ceremony / Judyth Har-Even
Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot
Joe stopped by / Andrei Codrescu
In the woods / Leslie Rubinkowski
Sa'm Pèdi / Madison Smartt Bell
Going native / Francine Prose
Chimera / Gerald N. Callahan
Mixed-blood stew / Jewell Parker Rhodes
Why I ride / Jana Richman
Delivering Lily / Phillip Lopate.
