What about the baby?: some thoughts on the art of fiction

Foreword: Alice McDermott speaks in italics / Tony Earley --

What I expect --

Story --

Sentencing --

What about the baby? --

Mary McCarthy --

Only connect (eventually) --

William Rehnquist, Robinson Crusoe, rabbit ears, and something about passion: advice from me to me --

An unreasonable degree of sympathy --

Starting over --

Coaching --

Faith and literature --

All drama is family drama --

Voice-overs --

Things --

Remembrance of things that never happened: the art of memoir, the art of fiction --

Finally.