The Best Writing on Writing - Volume 2

The page / Margaret Atwood -- Some notes on the art of lying / Alan Broughton -- Nine antirules of journalism / Roger Rosenblatt -- Degenerates / Kathleen Norris -- A book in search of a buzz : the marketing of a first novel / Michael Norman -- Paper trials / Calvin Trillin -- Anywhere but Kansas / William H. Gass -- Butch Cassidy and the Nazi dentist / William Goldman -- My life is mine, it is not David Leavitt's / Stephen Spender -- The closest work / Lee Upton -- One song, start to finish: a music lesson / Annette Grant. What we write about when we write about love / Nandy Willard -- A culture of biography / Justin Kaplan -- The writing of "Mint leaves at Yaddo" / Lyn Lifshin -- Dear Reviewer ... / David Carkeet -- Dysfunctional narratives or "Mistakes were made" / Charles Baxter -- Writers have had it up to here: the latest on the authors strike / Dan Greenburg -- Believing in literature / Dorothy Allison -- "JCO" and I / Joyce Carol Oates -- Realism and other illusions / Thomas E. Kennedy -- Conan the grammarian / Richard Lederer -- Foreign states of mind / Linda Simon -- Menial labor and the muse / Maxine Kumin