Volume 2 Includes index.

Content: Introduction -- Poems foster self-discovery -- A path taken -- Essentials get lost in the shuffle -- Timeless tact helps sustain a literacy time --Yes, there are seconds acts -- Footprints of greatness on your turf -- New insights into the novel -- Returning to Proust's world stirs remembrance -- Forget ideas -- In Paris and Moscow -- Recognizing the book -- How to insult a writer -- Calming the inner critic --A narrator leaps past a journalist --They leap from your brain then take over -- When inspiration started -- A career despite dad's advice -- Seeing the unimaginable freezes the imagination -- Hemingway's blessing - Returning to the character who started it all-- Negotiating the darkness -- Hometown boy makes waves -- As her son creates his story --