1. Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions, or why novels have first pages
2. You can't breathe where the air is clear
3. Who's in charge here?
4. Never trust a narrator with a speaking part
5. A still, small voice
6. Men made out of words, or my pip ain't like your pip
7. When very bad people happen to good novels
8. Wrinkles in time, or chapters just might matter
9. Everywhere is just one place
10. Clarissa's flowers
11. Met-him-pike-hoses
12. Life sentences
13. Drowning in the stream of consciousness
14. The light on daisy's dock
15. Fiction about fiction
16. Source codes and recycle bins
17. Improbabilities : Foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards
18. What's the big idea - or even the small one?
19. Who broke my novel?
20. Untidy Endings
21. History in the novel/The novel in history
22. Conspiracy Theory