Contents Introduction 1. On the Banks of Lost River 2. Where the Landscape Moved Like Waves: An Interview with Marguerite Young 3. River of Spirit: An Interview with Dan Wakefield 4. Sacred Space in Ordinary Time 5. Quaker Zen: On Jessamyn West's Friendly Persuasion 6. Vonnegut: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut 7. Free Singers/Be: On Etheridge Knight 8.

On Wildness and Domesticity: An Interview with Scott Russell Sanders 9. The Gospel According to Lish 10. Imagination 11. On Being Fierce 12. Monopoly Houses: On John McPhee's In Search of Marvin Gardens 13. Sailing the Sea in New Harmony Indiana: On Digression in Creative Nonfiction 14. Driving Famous Writers Around I465 15. Leaping Across the Canyon: On Writing 16.

Where's Iago? 17. Saturation: On Climate, Politics, and Sex in Magic Mountain and Snow Country (or the Ballad of the S.A.D. Café) 18. Time Capsules: On Time in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop 19. The Apprenticeship of Flannery O'Connor 20. The Gift of Fire: A Meditation on Art and Madness 21.

On Common Ground: Indiana Literature and the Land 22. The Economy of Peace.