For Ann and Judy

The essay, “A Dog in Brooklyn, a Girl in Detroit: A Life Among the Humanities,” is published for the first time in this volume.

Acknowledgment is made to the following publications in whose pages these essays first appeared: The Atlantic Monthly, March 1957, for “The Age of Happy Problems;” Mademoiselle, February 1958, for “How to Be an Artist’s Wife;” The Atlantic Monthly, November 1957, for “Divorce as a Moral Act;” Charm, October 1959, for “The Bachelor’s Dilemma;” Partisan Review, Summer 1957, for “The Mystery of Personality in the Novel;” Hudson Review, Winter 1958, for “The Fair Apple of Progress” (originally published as “The Purity and Cunning of Sherwood Anderson”); Hudson Review, Winter 1957, for “The New Upper-Middle Soap Opera;” Playboy, February 1958, for “The American as Hipster” (originally published as “The Beat Mystique”); The Nation, November 17, 1957, for “Hip, Cool, Beat, and Frantic;” Metronome, February 1961, for “The Rise of the Treeniks;” The Atlantic Monthly, September 1960, for “Fiction of the Sixties;” discovery, Number 1, for “Cleveland: Inflation-on-the-Erie;” Hudson Review, Summer 1952, for “Paris: Notes from La Vie de Bohème;” The Yale Review, Autumn 1954, for “Americans in the Port of Princes;” Playboy, June 1961, for “The Great Divide” (originally published as “The Great American Divide”); Playboy, September 1960, for “The Changing Village” (originally published as “The Restless Mecca”); The Noble Savage, Number 3, for “Death in Miami Beach.”