These precious days: essays

Introduction: Essays don't die --

Three fathers --

First Thanksgiving --

The Paris tattoo --

My year of no shopping --

The worthless servant --

How to practice --

To the doghouse --

Eudora Welty, an introduction --

Flight plan --

How knitting saved my life. Twice. --

Tavia --

There are no children here --

A paper ticket is good for one year --

The moment nothing changed --

The nightstand --

A talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities --

Cover stories --

Reading Kate DiCamillo --

Sisters --

These precious days --

Two more things I want to say about my father --

What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death --

Epilogue: a day at the beach.

Three fathers

First Thanksgiving

The Paris tattoo

My year of no shopping

The worthless servant

How to practice

To the doghouse

Eudora Welty, an introduction

Flight plan

How knitting saved my life. Twice.

Tavia

There are no children here

A paper ticket is good for one year

The moment nothing changed

The nightstand

A talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities

Cover stories

Reading Kate DiCamillo

Sisters

These precious days

Two more things I want to say about my father

What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death

Epilogue: a day at the beach.

Introduction: essays don't die

Three fathers

First Thanksgiving

The Paris tattoo

My year of no shopping

The worthless servant

How to practice

To the doghouse

Eudora Welty, an introduction

Flight plan

How knitting saved my life. Twice.

Tavia

There are no children here

A paper ticket is good for one year

The moment nothing changed

The nightstand

A talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities

Cover stories

Reading Kate DiCamillo

Sisters

These precious days

Two more things I want to say about my father

What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death

Epilogue: a day at the beach.