From the Book - First edition.
Happy Chicken: 1942-1944 --
Discovering Alice: 1947 --
District School #7, Niagara County, New York --
"They All Just Went Away" --
Headlights: The First Death --
An Unsolved Mystery: The Lost Friend --
"Start Your Own Business!" --
The Lost Sister: An Elegy --
Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Time --
Detroit: Lost City 1962-1968 --
Story Into Film: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk --
Photo Shoot: West Eleventh Street, NYC, March 6, 1970 --
Facts, Visions, Mysteries: My Father Frederic Oates, November 1988 --
A Letter to My Mother Carolina on Her Seventy-Eighth Birthday, November 8, 1994 --
"When I Was a Little Girl And My Mother Didn't Want Me" --
Excerpt, Telephone Conversation with My Father Frederic Oates, May 1999 --