The Age of Happy Problems

Contents

PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION

PART I: AMERICAN EVENTS

The Age of Happy Problems

How to Be an Artist’s Wife

Divorce as a Moral Act

The Bachelor’s Dilemma

The Mystery of Personality in the Novel

The Fair Apple of Progress

The New Upper-Middle Soap Opera

Hip, Cool, Beat and Frantic

1. The American as Hipster

2. Hip, Cool, Beat, and Frantic

3. The Rise of the Treeniks

Fiction of the Sixties

A Dog in Brooklyn, a Girl in Detroit: A Life among the Humanities

PART II: AMERICAN PLACES

Paris: Notes from La Vie de Bohème (Avec Tout Conforts)

Cleveland: Inflation-on-the-Erie

Haiti: Americans in the Port of Princes

Reno: The Great Divide

Greenwich Village: The Changing Village

Death in Miami Beach