From the Book - First edition.
Amy Hempel, good witch of Manhattan
Gordon Lish, captain fiction
Denis Johnson, a long time clean
Doug Peacock, Hayduke still lives
David Sedaris, trash collector extraordinaire
John Berger, old man of the mountains
Gary Snyder and the road to Kitkitdizze
Russell Chatham, the painter, recently hospitalized, emerges from seven-figure debt and alcoholism, ready to paint
Barry Lopez, carnivore for a night
Tom McFuane, AKA captain berserko, burning down the house
Lorrie Moore, fairy godmother : the road to the corn palace; or, The trail of ears
Joyce Carol Oates, Badass
Terry Tempest Williams, red-rock solid