(1989) “The Violent Meditations of Willis Carr, Sharpshooter (1848-1933)” (1990) “James Agee Never Lived in This House” (1990) “A Forgotten Nightmare” (1991) “The Last Bizarre Tale” (1991) “A Survivor of the Sinking of the Sultana” (1992) “The Invisible Girl” (1993) “The Retriever” (excerpt) (1993) “Fragments Found on the Field” (1994) “Hairtrigger Pencil Lines” (1994) “Retracing My Steps” (1994) “Over the Cliff” (1995) “A Walk with Thomas Jefferson at Poplar Forest” (1996) “The Retriever” (1996) “Cherokee Is Missing” (1996) “The Incendiary at the Forks of the River” (2003-4) “London Bridge Nocturnes: January, A Memoir” (2005) Nonfiction Literary Criticism Authored The Poetic Image in 6 Genres (1969) Harlequin’s Stick, Charlie’s Cane: A Comparative Study of Commedia dell’arte and Silent Slapstick Comedy (1975) A Primer of the Novel (1980) Writers’ Revisions (1981) Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers (1988) Beyond the Battlefield (2000) Touching the Web of Southern Novelists (2006) The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction (forthcoming in 2015) Compiled/Edited Rediscoveries (1971) American Dreams, American Nightmares (1972) Proletarian Writers of the Thirties (1979) Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties (1979) Rediscoveries II (1988) References External links David Madden website Madden