From the Book - 1st Anchor Books ed.
Introduction: Into the labyrinth
Orientation: who do you think you are? (What is "a writer," and how did I become one?)
Duplicity: the jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double (Why there are always two)
Dedication: The great god pen (Apollo vs. Mammon: at whose altar should the writer worship?)
Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & co. (Who waves the wand, pulls the strings, or signs the Devil's book?)
Communion: nobody to nobody (the eternal triangle: the writer, the reader, and the book as go-between)
Descent: Negotiating with the dead (Who makes the trip to the Underworld, and why
Introduction: Into the labyrinth
Orientation: who do you think you are? (What is "a writer," and how did I become one?)
Duplicity: the jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double (Why there are always two)
Dedication: The great god pen (Apollo vs. Mammon: at whose altar should the writer worship?)
Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & co. (Who waves the wand, pulls the strings, or signs the Devil's book?)
Communion: nobody to nobody (the eternal triangle: the writer, the reader, and the book as go-between)
Descent: Negotiating with the dead (Who makes the trip to the Underworld, and why?)