Foreword / Margaret Atwood
Introduction
1981 “Any question of such censorship”
1982 “An odd flu”
1983 “It’s raining men”
1984 “Moved by a stranger”
1985 “Why is a star a word for the exceptional?”
1986 “What is it we want when we want sex?”
1987 “Life and its sheer wonder”
1988 “Loving is a way of being”
1989 “Xenophilia”
1990 “The dying of the light”
1991 “There is no fault”
1992 “A lesbian in the ’40s”
1993 “It’s all right (even useful) to write drunk, as long as one edits sober”
1994 “I accept this degree”
1995 “A public space for our views and values”
The Last Chapter “I will do my best to live up to you”
Dramatis Personae
Notes