Sailing the inland sea : on writing, literature, and land / Susan Neville.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-220).

On the banks of Lost River -- Where the landscape moved like waves : an interview with Marguerite Young -- River of spirit : an interview with Dan Wakefield -- Sacred space in ordinary time -- Quaker zen : on Jessamyn West's The friendly persuasion -- Vonnegut -- Free singers/be : on Etheridge Knight -- On wildness and domesticity : an interview with Scott Russell Sanders -- The gospel according to Lish -- Imagination -- On being fierce -- Monopoly houses : on John McPhee's "The search for Marvin Gardens" -- Sailing the sea in New Harmony, Indiana : on digression in creative nonfiction -- Driving famous writers around I-465 -- Leaping across the canyon : on writing -- Where's Iago? -- Saturation : on climate, politics, and sex (or, the ballad of the S.A.D. Café) -- Time capsules : on time in Willa Cather's Death comes for the archbishop -- The apprenticeship of Flannery O'Connor -- The gift of fire : a meditation on art and madness -- On common ground : Indiana literature and the land -- The economy of peace.