Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgements Page -- Précis: The New Midlife Self-Writing Page -- Introduction -- 1 Rachel Cusk: The Expansive -- 2 Roxane Gay: The Charismatic -- 3 Sarah Manguso: The Polymath -- 4 Maggie Nelson: The Conversationalist -- Coda: Midlife Self-Writing and the Scholarship of the Future -- Bibliography -- Index