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No Heroics, Please


Foreword by Tess Gallagher
Editor’s Preface by 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 Egptian 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 Unkown Chekhov
Fiction of Occurrence and Consequence (with Tom Jenks)
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


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