• Introduction • Michael Cunningham - A Bottomless Fascination with the Process Itself • Edwidge Danticat - You Have to Live Your Characters’ Lives with Them • Mary Gaitskill - I’ve Worked Very Alone and Very Privately • Myla Goldberg - Moving through the Language on the Page • Ha Jin - Making the Sentences Fresh • Bret Anthony Johnston - There Is an Unassailable Victory in the Very Telling of a Story
• Edward P. Jones - The Image You Woke Up With • lê thi diem thúy - Writing Certain Experiences into the Language • Chang-rae Lee - The Drama of Consciousness
• Jonathan Lethem - Discovering the Story Word by Word • Alice Mattison - My Poems Began to Get More Like Stories • Rick Moody - When You See a Rule, Break It • Nancy Rawles - I Try to Write Rhythmically • Marilynne Robinson - An Intensifier of Experience • Donna Tartt - Character Is the Very Lifeblood of Fiction
• Mary Yukari Waters - Snatching at Random Bits of Light • Bibliography