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COMTENTTT ix Preface i Writing Daily, Writing in Tune 3 Scribe to the Prophet 9 Library of the Mind 14 The Writer as Professional Eavesdropper 27 Live Free or Die 3o Quilting Your Solitudes: A Letter to MyClass 5 2 Looking for Mr. Nu 60 Happy Problems 69 Personal Memory and Fictional Character 76 Reading the Cutbank Grief 80 Open Discovery in the Art of Creative Nonfiction 84 The Random Autobiography 91 Sentence as River and as Drum 97 Writing in the Open 101 Pepper 104 Why Write? ioy Rosie's Book of Sayings 112 Selfish Pleasures in a Life of Art: A Speech to the Graduating Class 117 Fame 122 Afterword: Learning from Strangers 13 5 There Was a Time 137 Acknowledgments viii I Contents ...