Learning to balance / Doris Betts -- Doubt and faith / Frederick Buechner -- On madness and longing / Robert Olen Butler -- By the fire / Will Campbell -- 500 words a day / Elizabeth Dewberry -- Dusty's flying taxi / Clyde Edgerton -- True stories / Denise Giardina -- Whodunit / Robert Goldsborough -- Happy man / Jon Hassler -- You can take the boy out of the country / Garrison Keillor -- Writing and revelation / Peggy Payne -- Man of letters / Walter Wangerin.