Alicia Christensen is the Bison Books editor at the University of Nebraska Press. Tobias Wolff is the author of numerous books, including the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War; the novel Old School; and, most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. Contributors: Laurie Alberts, Marvin V. Arnett, Charles Barber, Mary Felstiner, Eli Hastings, Sonya Huber, Jonathan Johnson, Ted Kooser, Dinah Lenney, Aaron Raz Link, Lee Martin, Dinty W. Moore, Hilda Raz, Mimi Schwartz, Brenda Serotte, Fan Shen, Peggy Shumaker, Natalia Rachel Singer, Floyd Skloot, John Skoyles, and Janet Sternburg.
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Preface Introduction "Long Live the Red Terror!" Fan Shen Moving Water, Tucson Peggy Shumaker Winter 1997 Laurie Alberts The Weight of Spoons Charles Barber Hard Luck Suit John Skoyles Fortuna Brenda Serotte The Boys of Summer Marvin V. Arnett Excerpt from "Winter" Ted Kooser Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers Dinty W. Moore Good, Alright, Fine Eli Hastings Acting Dinah Lenney And There Fell a Great Star Natalia Rachel Singer Not Coming Out Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz Excerpt from Phantom Limb Janet Sternburg Alternatives, 1979 Mary Felstiner Excerpt from "The Second Trimester" Jonathan Johnson A Measure of Acceptance Floyd Skloot The New Kitchen Mimi Schwartz One I Love, Two I Love Lee Martin Excerpt from "The Promise of Power" Sonya Huber Source Acknowledgments List of Contributors
"You will see [the] quality of recognizable humanity glittering throughout the memoirs from which this book was drawn... These writers are intensely interested in what lies beyond them---how the world at large acts, and acts on them, and, finally, hesitantly, how they themselves have acted upon the world. This is, after all, history---history from the inside out." from Tobias Wolff's introduction