“Dark Came Early in That Country” was first published in Atlantic, August, 1968, under the title “Home to Shawneetown.” Revised.
“Could World War I Have Been a Mistake” was first published in Audience, Vol. I, No. 1, under the title “Swan Lake Re-swum.” Revised.
“Otto Preminger’s Strange Suspenjers” was first published in Focus/media, 1972.
“I Never Hollered Cheezit the Cops” was first published in Atlantic, October, 1972. Revised.
“The Mad Laundress of Dingdong-Daddyland” was first published in Commentary, September, 1969, under the title “Decline and Fall of Ding-Dong Daddyland.”
“The Leak That Defied the Books” was first published in The Dude, 1961, under the title “God Bless the Lonesome Gas Man.” Revised.
“Tinkle Hinkle and the Footnote King” was first published in Dial, fall 1959, under the title “Ding-Ding, Tinkle Hinkle, the Finkified Lasagna and the Footnote King.” Revised.
“Brave Bulls of Sidi Yahya” was first published in Playboy, December, 1972, under the title “The Way to Medenine.”
“I Know They’ll Like Me in Saigon” was first published in The Critic, February-March, 1969. Revised.
“Airy Persiflage on the Heaving Deep, or Sam, You Made the Ship too Short” first appeared in Works in Progress, No. 1 (issued by the Literary Guild of America).
“No Cumshaw No Rickshaw” was first published in Holiday, November, 1971.
“Letter from Saigon” was first published in two parts in the March-April and April-May, 1969, issues of The Critic under the title “That Was No Albatross.”
“Police and Mama-sans Get It All” was first published in Rolling Stone, May 27, 1971, under the title “White Mice and Mama-sans Get It All.”
“Poor Girls of Kowloon” was first published in The Critic, November-December, 1969, under the title “They Don’t Belong to Us.”
“After the Buffalo” first appeared as the introduction to The True Story of Bonnie and Clyde, New American Library, 1968.
“The House of the Hundred Grassfires” constitutes the material deleted before publication from A Walk on the Wild Side and first appeared in the anthology Nelson Algren’s Book of Lonesome Monsters, Lancer Books, 1962. Reissued by Bernard Geis Associates, 1963.
“Previous Days” was first published in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, April 30, 1972, under the title “Blanche Sweet Under the Tapioca.”
“Merry Christmas Mr. Mark” was first published in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, December 4, 1949.
“I Guess You Fellas Just Don’t Want Me” was first published in Audience, November-December, 1971, under the title “Ipso Facto.”
“Everything Inside Is a Penny” was first published in Playboy, July, 1962 under the title “The Father & Son Cigar.”
“Go! Go! Go! Forty Years Ago,” a reminiscence of the Chicago White Sox of 1919, was written for the Chicago Sun-Times during the 1959 World Series.
“A Ticket on Skoronski” was first published in the Saturday Evening Post, November 5, 1966. Revised.
“Ode to an Absconding Bookie” was first published in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, October 9, 1972.
“Bullring of the Summer Night” was first published in Playboy, June, 1970, under the title “Get All the Money.” Revised.
“Moon of the Arfy Darfy” was first published in the Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1964. Revised.
“Watch Out for Daddy,” the middle section of this piece was first published in Playboy, April, 1957, under the title “All Through the Night.”
“The Last Carousel” was first published in Playboy, February, 1972. Revised.
“Epitaph: The Man with the Golden Arm” was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, August, 1947.