Foreword Robert Atwan Introduction Daniel W. Lehman and Joe Mackall Breath Judith Kitchen Small Rooms in Time Ted Kooser Black Marks Sydney Lea The Book of Knowledge Steve Harvey Riding in the Dark Angela Morales Triage Jon Kerstetter The Clearwater Kim Barnes As a Boy I Dreamed Often of a Tiger Joe Wilkins Standing Naked in a Pool of Her Clothing Mary Haug Someone Else Chris Offutt Heart Sounds Lee Martin Telephone Julie Marie Wade and Brenda Miller Love & Fury Richard Hoffman Among Women Jessie van Eerden Valmiki's Palm David James Duncan Do Not Read Out Loud Laurie Rachkus Uttich Playfulness: A Note Brian Doyle Notes Toward the Definition of an Essay Robert Atwan Writing & Publishing a Memoir: What in the Hell Have I Done? Andre Dubus III Tall, Straight Sisters Jessica Lind Peterson By Force, Threat, or Deception Joe Mackall The Best Fried Chicken Ann Hood Dog Days Sam Pickering Good Guys Maureen Stanton Daughter of a Gun Sara Curtis Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw: Character Formation in Traumatic Nonfiction Daniel W. Lehman Captain Love Jerald Walker Going Back to Plum Island Jill Christman Drowning Catfish Jason Tucker Mirrored Transoms Fleda Brown A Pilgrimage to Dennis Hopper Ron Clinton Smith Acknowledgments List of Contributors.