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The Inevitable : : Contemporary Writers Confront Death

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Introduction / David Shields and Bradford Morrow -- Deathwatch / David Gates -- Between the forest and the well : notes on death / Kyoki Mori -- Bayham Street / Robert Clark -- The sutra of maggots and blowflies / Sallie Tisdale -- A primer for the punctuation of heart disease / Jonathan Safran Foer -- Silence and awakening / Diane Ackerman -- A solemn pleasure / Melissa Pritchard -- Death in the age of digital proliferation and other considerations / Christopher Sorrentino -- The siege / Joyce Carol Oates -- Field notes for the graveyard enthusiast / Robin Hemley -- Inside story / Peter Straub -- Invasion to the dance / Kevin Baker -- Death wish to Negroland / Marge Jefferson -- Grace Street / Greg Bottoms -- The final plot / Lynne Tillman -- Lessness / Lance Olsen -- Bijou / Mark Doty -- Cézanne's colors / Brenda Hillman -- What will survive of us / Geoff Dyer -- This is the life / Annie Dillard.

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 332 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393339369
039333936X

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Shields, David, 1956-
Morrow, Bradford, 1951-

SUBJECTS
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Psychology.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Fear of death.