List of Abbreviations

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

Chapter 1: The Making of Nathan Zuckerman

17

1.1. My Life as a Man: “Useful” Zuckerman

17

1.2. “Trying to Keep to the Facts”

35

1.3. The Ghost Writer: Nathan Zuckerman
at the Altar of Art

38

1.4. “To Be Ambiguous and Clear”

43

Chapter 2: Zuckerman (Un-)Bound

61

2.1. “You’re Nathan Zuckerman”

61

2.2. “No Longer a Writer”

82

2.3. “…from Zuckerman’s Notebooks”

91

Chapter 3: “I’m a Theater and Nothing
More than a Theater”: The Counterlife

97

3.1. “The Notebook is Me”

97

3.2. “There Was No Stopping”

104

3.3. “It’s In the Place”

110

Chapter 4: “This Fictional Autobiographical
Projection of a Partial You”: The Facts

119

4.1. “Dear Zuckerman”

119

4.2. “If I Were You (Not Impossible)”

131

4.3. “It Is About What It Is About”

135