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CONTENTS Preface, vii The Writer and the Place, Paul Engle, 1 PAUL ENGLE, IMPRESARIO Recollections of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, James B. Hall, 13 Some Recollections, Warren Carrier, 18 Paul at Stone City, R. V. Cassill, 24 A Miranda's World, Donald Justice, 27 My Time, Constance Urdang, 34 When Literary Life Was Still Piled Up in a Few Places, Robert Bly, 37 A Crisis of Sorts, Curtis Harnack, 45 Dear Hualing, Vance Bourjaily, 52 "I'll Make Your Career," Kiyohiro Miura, 57 Engle's Workshop, Lewis Turco, 63 He Made It Possible, Marvin Bell, 72 Every Shut-Eye Ain't Asleep, Michael S. Harper, 78 A Tale of Two Fathers, Bharati Mukherjee, 89 The Fellowship, Philip R O'Connor, 93 Thank You, Paul, Wai-lim Yip, 107 "Next Year You Can See for Yourself," Michael Dennis Browne, 109 New World Symphony, Kurt Vonnegut, 113 MENTORS, FOMENTERS, AND TORMENTORS Mentors, Fomenters, and Tormentors, W. D. Snodgrass, 119 Far from the Ocean: Robert Lowell at Iowa, 1953, Robert Dana, 147 Mine Own John Berryman, Philip Levine, 160 Improvisations on Donald Justice, Charles Wright, 186 R. V. Cassill, Jean Wylder, 193 Ray B. West, Jr., Richard Stern, 196 Marguerite Young: Trying on a Style, William Cotter Murray, 201 Vance Bourjaily, Eugene Garber, 206 Kurt Vonnegut: Waltzing with the Black Crayon, Gail Godwin, 213 MYTHS AND TEXTS The Emergence of the Writers' Workshop, John C. Gerber, 225 Flannery O'Connor in the Writers' Workshop, Jean Wylder, 229 Chicken ala King, Oakley Hall, 235 Snapshots of Paul, Kay Cassill, 237 Dylan Thomas at Iowa, Ray B. West, Jr., 241 So Began the Happiest Years of My Life, Henri Coulette, 260 Fair Days and Fowl, Steven D. Salinger, 262 Afterword, Hualing Nieh Engle, 273 Notes on Contributors, 281 Acknowledgments, 293 ...

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