Negotiating with the dead : a writer on writing
(Book)

Introduction: Into the labyrinth

Prologue

Orientation: who do you think you are? (What is "a writer," and how did I become one?)

Duplicity: the jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double (Why there are always two)

Dedication: The great god pen (Apollo vs. Mammon: at whose altar should the writer worship?)

Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & co. (Who waves the wand, pulls the strings, or signs the Devil's book?)

Communion: nobody to nobody (the eternal triangle: the writer, the reader, and the book as go-between)

Descent: Negotiating with the dead (Who makes the trip to the Underworld, and why?)