Part One School : Teachers we remember: Gerrit Gouws / J.M. Coetzee Mabel Morrill / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Learning curve / Catherine Aird A way with words / Michael Scammell Peter Way / Andrew Motion My grandfather and my other teachers / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Il Miglior Fabbro / George Howe Colt Part Two College : The perilous balance of Marvin Eisenberg / Jeffrey Meyers W. Edward Brown : Many years of mentoring / Jay Parini David Milch and the strategies of indirection in fiction / William Logan Part Three Graduate school and after : My Doktorvater: Alvin Kernan / Stephen Greenblatt A far cry from Oxbridge / Margaret Drabble The right words / Carl Rollyson Remembering Allen Mandelbaum / Paul Mariani Sketch of a professor: Roger Gilliatt / Michael J. Aminoff How lucky I was... / Ann Thwaite J.P. Stern: The professor from Prague / Daniel Johnson George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent / Robert Boyers Class struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford / Dana Gioia V.S. Naipaul, the drill sergeant / Paul Theroux
