Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Journalism as Literary Praxis 3
7. Journalism on the High End 20
8. The Gray Notebook : Between Chronicle and Memoir 42
9. Difficulty of the Novel 67
10. Rural Roots of Catalan Modernity 104
11. The Catalan Landscape Seen as a Painting 122
12. Remembering the Region 147
13. Shipwrecks with Monsters 162
14. A Sui Generis Liberal 187
15. Of Women and Days 231
16. Encroaching Death 261
17. Works Cited 289
18. Index 301