How literature is lived through: touching reading and Geoff Dyer's "Sheer rage"
Writing in the margins of an "endless novel"
Testamentary fictions: revisiting Peter Ackroyd's The last testament of Oscar Wilde and Chatterton
The "crooked business" of storytelling: the ethics of authorship and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
The buried life: distancing and displacement in Colm Tóibín's The master
Stories within stories: Virginia Woolf among other artists
Epilogue: the sense of a beginning, or the future past of postmodernism.