1. Introduction: Brilliant Careers? / Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans
PART I: CAREER/SUCCESS. 2. An Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton's Literary Authority in his Autobiography / Chene Heady ; 3. From the Audience to the Stage: Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer's Advertisements For Myself / John O'Brien ; 4. The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal / Hywel Dix
PART II: QUEER CAREERS. 5. Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Literary Celebrity and Literary Career of Gertrude Stein / Jeff Solomon ; 6. Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin's Career / Guy Davidson 7. Parallel:Parallax
The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand / Elizabeth McMahon ; 8. Christos Tsolkias, 'Career,' and Anti-Capitalist Critique / Leigh Dale
PART III: CHANGING CONTEXTS: RETHINKING HOW LITERARY CAREERS ARE MADE 9. Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally's Literary Career / Paul Sharrad ; 10. Inside the Writer's Room, the Artist's Studio and Flaubert's Parrot / Nicola Evans ; 11. She needs a Website of her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad ; 12. Who are you Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era / Laura Dietz.