| Contents |
Introduction / Jeb Livingood -- I. A Writing Life -- Going to See the Elephant: Our Duty as Storytellers -- A Writing Life -- How the Cookie Crumbled: Notes on a Literary Generation -- Cowboys and Indians: A Few Notions about Creative Writing -- Preface to "Lives of the Poets" -- II. Other Voices -- The Good Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Talk to the Fitzgerald Society -- Then and Now: In Cold Blood Revisited -- Miss Eudora When Last Seen -- A Day's Fair Work: Observations on the Poetry of Fred Chappell -- Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Some Notes on the Life and Art of the Late James Dickey -- Good Medicine: Some Personal Notes on the Art and Life of Madison Jones -- William Goyen: Brother to Anyone with Ears to Hear -- III. True and False Confessions -- Indulge Me a Little: An Interview with George Garrett -- A Letter to the Students of the University of Virginia -- When Lorena Bobbitt Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbing Along: The Story State of Popular Culture -- Stars and Bars: A Confederate Collage -- False Confessions. |
| Local note | Inscribed on title page "For M F (AKA Col. Stuart) [Stuart Wright] ... G[eorge Garrett]" and autographed by Garrett below his printed name. Paperback. Laid in is a handwritten letter from Garrett to Wright (April 21, 2004). Stuart Wright Book Collection #161.9. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, George Garrett Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Garrett, George, 1929-2008. Going to see the elephant. 1st ed. Huntsville, Tex. : Texas Review Press, 2002 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Garrett, George, 1929-2008. Going to see the elephant. 1st ed. Huntsville, Tex. : Texas Review Press, 2002 |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2001027801 |
| ISBN | 1881515427 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781881515425 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
