Contents

17 • Conspiracies of the Past

23 • It Was True at the Time

31 • Down and Out in Brooklyn

43 • Upon Information and Belief

51 • Incriminations

59 • Infinitely Dropped

70 • 1961

85 • My Urban Plan

90 • Slouching from Brooklyn

92 • The Pope Meets Santa

105 • Dog in the Rain

108 • Testimony

117 • Divided Selves

122 • Star Witness

129 • Cutting Stone

145 • Turf

152 • Sealed Files

153 • The Fast Eddie F. Complex

159 • Mitzvah Madness

161 • Consideration

180 • Ciao, Bella

192 • More Alive Than Ever

197 • Between He and I

202 • Fresh Head

209 • Organized Crime?

214 • Sympathy for the Guy Sitting On My Phone Tap

220 • Morning Bells are Ringing, Morning Bells are Ringing

228 • Correspondences

253 • Mysteries of the (Hair) Salon

259 • She Don’t Lie, She Don’t Lie, She Don’t Lie

274 • What Larks

286 • One Happy Birthday

293 • The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Something Like the Truth

326 • Keeping Watch

337 • Records & Sources