Foreword / Tess Gallagher -- Editor's Preface / William L. Stull -- Early Stories. Furious Seasons. The Hair. The Aficionados. Poseidon and Company. Bright Red Apples -- Fragment of a Novel. From The Augustine Notebooks -- Poems. The Brass Ring. Beginnings. In the Trenches with Robert Graves. The Man Outside. Adultery. For the Egyptian Coin Today, Arden, Thank You. Seeds. Betrayal. The Contact. Something Is Happening. A Summer in Sacramento. Reaching. Soda Crackers. Those Days. On the Pampas Tonight. Poem on My Birthday, July 2. Return. The Sunbather, to Herself. No Heroics, Please -- Occasions. On "Neighbors" On "Drinking While Driving" On Rewriting. On the Dostoevsky Screenplay. On "Bobber" and Other Poems. On "For Tess" On "Errand" On Where I'm Calling From -- Introductions. Steering by the Stars. All My Relations. The Unknown Chekhov. Fiction of Occurrence and Consequence. On Contemporary Fiction. On Longer Stories -- Book Reviews. Big Fish, Mythical Fish. Barthelme's Inhuman Comedies. Rousing Tales. Bluebird Mornings, Storm Warnings. A Gifted Novelist at the Top of His Game. Fiction That Throws Light on Blackness. Brautigan Serves Werewolf Berries and Cat Cantaloupe. McGuane Goes after Big Game. Richard Ford's Stark Vision of Loss, Healing. A Retired Acrobat Falls under the Spell of a Teenage Girl. "Fame Is no Good, Take It from Me" Coming of Age, Going to Pieces -- An Essay and a Meditation. Friendship. Meditation on a Line from Saint Teresa.