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Contents Acknowledgments xi r The Pirate’s Waltz 1 Unemployed, in Greenland? 12 The Art of War 21 The Expulsion of Oronte Churm 25 Tenacity 28 Crocodiles 34 Killing Pirates 40 I Didn’t Know 42 The Unknown 46 Desire 53 Confessions 63 Time Monkeys 69 Quid Pro Quo, Dr. Lecter 74 Show, Don’t Tell 78 Creative Writing in the Academy 81 Letter to a Former Student Now Graduated 84 You Shall Know Them by Their Music 88 Hardheads 92 Seeing 99 Microgeographies 104 Geedunk and Geegaws 107 Move-In Blues 113 The Recipe in the Writing Class 118 A Remembrance of Gravies Past 124 Being Mistaken for Bookish 128 Notes for an Essay on Race and Class in a University Town 131 Looking for Writers Beyond Their Work 139 Where Your Standardized Testing Money Goes 148 The Unlikelihood of Fathers 158 The College of Hard Knocks 168 Languor 174 We Transit 177 Repose 186 Coming to Know a Place 192 ...