Truth in nonfiction: essays

A weedy garden / Paul Lisicky

Truth in personal narrative / Vivian Gornick

Bride in beige / Mark Doty

The forest of memory / Kathryn Harrison

La verdad? Notes on the writing of Silent dancing, a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood (a memoir in prose and poetry) / Judith Ortiz Cofer

Whose truth? / Phyllis Rose

The ethics of betrayal: a diary of a conundrum / Nancy K. Miller

Gowers' memory / Oliver Sacks

Mer-mer: an essay about how I wish we wrote our nonfictions / John D'Agata

Reality, persona / David Shields

Trying truth / Nancy Mairs

The observer observing: some notes on the personal essay / Leonard Kriegel

Occasional desire: on the essay and the memoir / David Lazar

The rape of Rusty / Wayne Koestenbaum

The bed of the fairy princess / Joanna Frueh

The Kazakh eagle / Alphonso Lingis

The true frame of the prose poem / Ray González

Tender fictions / Barbara Hammer

Seeing (through) red / Su Friedrich

What's wrong with this picture? / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer.