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Table of Contents

Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2005

CONTENTS

Editoris Notes

David D. Cooper
pp. vii-ix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0007
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2004 Editors' Prize

First Place

The Molino

Melani Martinez
pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0017
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Runner-Up

Gula, Gula --Listen, Listen: Memory and the Map of Childhood

Mira Bartok
pp. 9-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0002
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Essays and Memoris

Friday Night Fights with Mom

Thomas McGohey
pp. 21-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0018
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Monais Toast

Cynthia J. Hollenbeck
pp. 35-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0013
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A Rough Guide to Astronomy

Shara Sinor
pp. 51-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0023
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Thinking in Circles

Floyd Skloot
pp. 61-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0024
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Resonance

Carol A. Ellingson
pp. 73-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0009
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Afterlife

Derek Furr
pp. 81-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0011
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What I Know Good

Rochelle L. Harris
pp. 89-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0012
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The Nuptial Flight of the Ants: Or, On the Nature of Motherly Love

Kimberly Meyer
pp. 103-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0020
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The Crack-Up: #199-7

Taylor Elliott
pp. 113-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0010
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Hands

Shelley Puhak
pp. 123-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0021
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Pinups

David Chura
pp. 131-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0005
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A Starbucks State of Mind

Jan Koenen
pp. 139-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0015
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Comments on the Form

Reflection and Retrospection: A Pedagogic Mystery Story

Phillip Lopate
pp. 143-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0016
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Interview

Interview with Lauren Slater

Alys Culhane, Lauren Slater
pp. 157-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0008
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Photo Essay

No Photo Essay

Ralph Menendez
pp. 173-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0019
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Book Reviews

Full-Length Reviews

Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun (review)

Laura Julier
pp. 175-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0014
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Occasions of Sin: A Memoir (review)

Jocelyn Bartkevicius
pp. 179-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0001
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Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery (review)

Wendy Rawlings
pp. 182-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0022
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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.

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (review)

Christopher Weber
pp. 185-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0025
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Regarding the Pain of Others (review)

Christopher Weber
pp. 186-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0026
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (review)

Lin Calof
pp. 187-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0003
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After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust (review)

Lin Calof
pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0004
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Contributors

About the Contributors

pp. 191-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2005.0006
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