Table of Contents

Table Talk

Amy Tan
Preface: Required Reading and Other Dangerous Subjects

Robert Pinsky
Poem: Ode to Meaning

Michael Dorris
The Mark of Cain

Brenda S. Lukeman
Fiction: The Eye of the Needle

J. D. McClatchy
Memoir: My Fountain Pen

Robert Hass
Poem: Shame: An Aria

Darryl Cox
Books: You Send Me by Daniel Wolff

Michael Chitwood
Poem: The Singing

John Lennard
Books/Television: Reginald Hill

Dagoberto Gilb
Northeast Direct

Henk Romijn Meijer
Rear Window

Thom Gunn
Poem: Cat Island

Stephen Greenblatt
Expectation and Estrangement

Emily Fragos
Poem: The Path

Sigrid Nunez
Fiction: Naked Sleeper

Yehuda Amichai
Poem: Hamadiya

August Kleinzahler
Architecture: At the Library

Dean Young
Poem: Acceptance Speech

Greil Marcus
Art: The Riddle

Steve Vineberg
Film: William Wyler

Czeslaw Milosz
Prose-Poem: Subjects to Let

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Cover: Joseph Goldyne, Goya Trilogy: Looking and Seeing, 1994.