In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Notes

David Cooper
pp. vii-viii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0006
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Essays and Memoirs

The Office

Pappi Tomas
pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0025
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In Brief: An American Tale

Gaynell Gavin
pp. 11-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0007
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The Falling

Gail B. Griffin
p. 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0008
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A Room of My Own

Jeffrey Hammond
pp. 27-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0009
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Footnote on Metaphor

Alyce Miller
pp. 37-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0018
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Not the Great Books

Sue Allison
p. 45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0003
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Buying a New Fridge at Sixty-Five

Robert Kimber
pp. 47-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0012
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If It's Just One More Thing, Why Does It Feel Like the Last?

Ellen Morris Prewitt
pp. 51-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0020
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Disappearing Country

Barbara Lounsberry
pp. 57-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0016
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"The Twa Corbies"

Stephen Kuusisto
pp. 61-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0013
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Split

Marilyn Abildskov
pp. 69-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0002
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Coming to Terms

Steven, 1949 June 9- Harvey
pp. 77-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0010
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Interviews

Interview With Rebecca McClanahan

Patricia O'Hara, Rebecca McClanahan
pp. 91-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0019
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A Review of Gerald Stern's What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life (review)

Sue William Silverman
pp. 105-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0022
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A Conversation with Gerald Stern

Sue William Silverman, Gerald Stern
pp. 109-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0023
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Book Reviews

Full-Length Reviews

Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale (review)

Jocelyn Bartkevicius
pp. 117-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0001
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Still Pitching: A Memoir (review)

Peter M. Ives
pp. 120-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0011
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Jesus Sound Explosion (review)

Marc J. Sheehan
pp. 123-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0021
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The Body of Brooklyn (review)

Joan Connor
pp. 125-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0004
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Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (review)

Frank Tempone
pp. 128-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0024
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Pink Houses and Family Taverns (review)

Julie Lindquist
pp. 129-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0014
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Reader-to-Reader: Capsule Reviews

This column invites readers to share their favorite nonfiction books in print. Memoirs, travel writing, nature writing, essay collections, biography, and true adventure are all welcome in these capsule reviews—both of new books and of old favorites still available. Our aim is to keep the best nonfiction alive in a reader-to-reader kind of way. If you have books that you'd like to recommend in this column, contact Mimi Schwartz at mimi.schwartz@worldnet.att.net.

The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod, and: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (review)

Joyce Greenberg Lott
pp. 135-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0015
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In Patagonia, and: A Year in Provence, and: Paris to the Moon (review)

Patrick Madden
pp. 138-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0017
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Contributors

About the Contributors

pp. 143-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2004.0005
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