Creative nonfiction : a reader / Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Editor.

Reportage. Battle for Lakag : the T'boli Defend a Way of Life -- The January 30 Insurrection ; Feature articles / essays. Confessions of a Yes Man -- Popstream -- Dedma 101 -- Strictly Salsa -- Flash in the Man -- Confessions of a Q.C. House-Husband -- Slouching towards Story -- Sour is Super -- Educating Mang Juan -- Religious Row -- Toilet Training and Progress -- How a Nation Lives with its Helplessness ; Feature articles / reviews. Honor and Love Among Thieves -- Bayaning Third World : You Don't Know Joe -- Riders of the Storm -- Through a Glass, Darkly, 1948 ; Interview stories / character sketches/ profiles. Solita Monsod : Spunk and Substance -- Fiery Water Woman -- Joey "Pepe" Smith -- Bibsy Carballo : Taking Things as They Come -- The Last Days of a Giant -- Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Cantadora -- Love Never Gives Up -- The Rise and Fall of Pasay ; Travel essays / travel narratives. Beauty and the beast -- Camiguin -- Pagan : City of Four Million Pagodas -- Is It "Cafe con Leche" or "Leche con Caf ?" ; Personal recollection / memoir. A "Collector" of Events -- I Never Sang for My Father -- A Gift of Words -- One's Secret Lifework -- Welcome Home -- Journalism and Academe -- The Proper Stranger -- The Disappearing Eye : a Medical Mystery ; Epilogue : Journalism versus Literature

"This book is the most popular form of creative writing today and, in the opinion of some, the most important. Filipinos have been writing it for some time now, but this Reader is perhaps the first compilation of the many varieties of the genre written by some of the finest writers of the country."-- Back cover.