Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Edward Dahlberg Times 5
Edward Dahlberg, Teacher
Dahlberg's The Olive of Minerva
Edward Dahlberg 1900-1977
The Wages of Expectation
The Causes of Immortal Conceptions
II. The Literary Life and Hard Times
The Literature of Place and No Place
The Night the Ghost Didn't Get In
Catholics Coming of Age
Ellen Frankfort's Voice
Difficult Women and Minor Characters
On Becoming a Novelist and Panic among the Philistines
Famous People He Has Known
The Post-Modern Aura
Protesting N.E.A.
Artisits Should Accept Grants from the Arts Endowment
Letters to Editors: The N.E.A. and the Loyalty Oafs
III. Fictional Times: America, England, Ireland
Craig Nova, 1,2,3
John Updike
Nicholas Delbanco, Donald Marsh, Katherine Dunn, Rosalyn Drexler, Kenneth Patchen, Harry Crews, Robert Hemenway
David Black
James Carroll
Mary Gordon
Chuck Blaise and Madison Jones
Hugh Nissenson
John Barth
Gordon Lish
Thomas McMahon
James T. Farrell
Joseph Caldwell and James Reid
John Cheever
Norman Kotker
Richard Elman and Robin Hemley
Nettie Jones
C.E. Poverman
Douglas Unger
Richard Bausch and Mark Probst
Howard Frank Mosher
Thomas Pynchon
Larry Heinemann
Adrian Mitchell
Patrick McGinley
Bernard Mac Laverty
William Trevor and Fay Weldon
Iris Murdoch
D. M. Thomas
IV. Nonfictional Time: Amnesty, Trials, Profiles, Censorship
Remebering to Forget
Jury Duty
Michael Harrington
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Of Judges and G-strings
Will the Court Bare All?
Freedom at Risk
V. Time for One Story
The Maggot Principle
Afterward
Index