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* "The Sound of Your Writing" with Exercise One: Being Gorgeous (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Punctuation" with Exercise Two: I Am García Márquez  (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Sentence Length and Complex Syntax" with Exercise Three: Short and Long (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Repetition" with Exercise Four: Again and Again and Again (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Adjective and Adverb" with Exercise Five: Chastity (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Subject Pronoun and Verb" with Exercise Six: The Old Woman (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Point of View and Voice" with Exercise Seven: POV (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Changing Point of View" with Exercise Eight: Changing Voices (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Indirect Narration, or What Tells" with Exercise Nine: Telling It Slant (in ''Steering the Craft'')
* "Crowding and Leaping" with Exercise Ten: A Terrible Thing to Do (in ''Steering the Craft'')




* "The Space Crone" (1976)
* "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (1976)
* "Moral and Ethical Implications of Family Planning" (1978)
* "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (1979)
* "Working on 'The Lathe'" (1979)
* "Some Thoughts on Narrative" (1980)
* "World-Making" (1981)
* "Hunger" (1981)
* "Place Names" (1981)
* "The Princess" (1982)
* "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (1982)
* "Facing It" (1982)
* "Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry" (1983)
* "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" (1983)
* "Along the Platte" (1983)
* "Whose Lathe?" (1984)
* "The Woman Without Answers" (1984)
* "The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1984)


==Collections==
==Collections==

Revision as of 19:37, 6 January 2011

Chronological

2008



By title

  • "Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading", Harper's Magazine (February 2008, pp.33-38)
  • "Assumptions About Fantasy" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Wilderness Within" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Re-Reading Peter Rabbit" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Young Adult in the YA" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "A Message About Messages" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Why Kids Want Fantasy" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Introducing Myself" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Being Taken for Granite" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Indian Uncles" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "My Libraries" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "My Island" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "On the Frontier" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "All Happy Families" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Things Not Actually Present: On The Book of Fantasy and J. L. Borges" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Reading Young, Reading Old: Mark Twain's Diaries of Adam and Eve" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Thinking About Cordwainer Smith" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Stress-Rhythm in Poetry and Prose" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Wilderness Within: The Sleeping Beauty and 'The Poacher'" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Off the Page: Loud Cows: A Talk and a Poem About Reading Aloud" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Fact and/or/plus Fiction" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Award and Gender" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "On Genetic Determinism" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "About Feet" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts About Beauty" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Collectors, Rhymesters, and Drummers" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Telling Is Listening" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Operating Instructions" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "'A War Without End'" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "A Matter of Trust" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Writer and the Character" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Unquestioned Assumptions" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Prides: An Essay on Writing Workshops" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Question I Get Asked Most Often" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Old Body Not Writing" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Writer on, and at, Her Work" (in The Wave in the Mind)


  • "The Sound of Your Writing" with Exercise One: Being Gorgeous (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Punctuation" with Exercise Two: I Am García Márquez (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Sentence Length and Complex Syntax" with Exercise Three: Short and Long (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Repetition" with Exercise Four: Again and Again and Again (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Adjective and Adverb" with Exercise Five: Chastity (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Subject Pronoun and Verb" with Exercise Six: The Old Woman (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Point of View and Voice" with Exercise Seven: POV (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Changing Point of View" with Exercise Eight: Changing Voices (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Indirect Narration, or What Tells" with Exercise Nine: Telling It Slant (in Steering the Craft)
  • "Crowding and Leaping" with Exercise Ten: A Terrible Thing to Do (in Steering the Craft)


  • "The Space Crone" (1976)
  • "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (1976)
  • "Moral and Ethical Implications of Family Planning" (1978)
  • "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (1979)
  • "Working on 'The Lathe'" (1979)
  • "Some Thoughts on Narrative" (1980)
  • "World-Making" (1981)
  • "Hunger" (1981)
  • "Place Names" (1981)
  • "The Princess" (1982)
  • "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (1982)
  • "Facing It" (1982)
  • "Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry" (1983)
  • "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" (1983)
  • "Along the Platte" (1983)
  • "Whose Lathe?" (1984)
  • "The Woman Without Answers" (1984)
  • "The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1984)

Collections