Contents -- Preface (Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon) -- Introduction (Mark Busby) -- PART ONE. Talking with John Graves -- The Writer John Graves Symposium (Sam Hynes, Dave Hickey, John Graves, and Mark Busby) -- An Interview with John Graves (Dave Hamrick) -- PART TWO. Friends -- John (Bill Wittliff) -- John Graves: A Tribute (Rick Bass) -- John Graves Tribute, November 11, 2000 (William Broyles) -- John Graves From Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family (John R. Erickson) -- Texas Past, Texas Present (Bill Harvey) -- The Golden Age of John Graves (James Ward Lee) -- PART THREE. Works -- Haunted Landscapes: The Ecology of Story in John Graves' Texas (Alex Hunt) -- Goodbye to a River and American Environmental Literature (Terrell Dixon) -- Two Approaches to Ecology and Gender in Goodbye to a River (James Langston) -- Boys' Stories: Beverly Lowry, John Graves, and the (Male) Texas Literary Tradition in The Perfect Sonya (Betsy Berry) -- Of Dachshunds and Dashes: Subjects and Style in E. B. White and John Graves (Dickie Maurice Heaberlin) -- Brazos Bildungsroman: John Graves and Texas in Transition in Goodbye to a River (Lisa Slappey) -- Contested Landscapes: John Graves' Meditations on Hard Scrabble Texas History and Ecosystems (Barbara J. Cook) -- Kindred Spirits: John Graves and Texas Monthly (Cory Lock) -- Auroras of Autumn: John Graves' Valedictions (Don Graham) -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.