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Index
Introduction
The Romanian Air-Force Diet
Take A Flying Focus
Withholding the Facts of Life
It Rings—You Jump
My Detested Fellow Pilgrims
Numbers on the Brain
A Jones for Generalizations
Out for a Read
Please Sam, Don’t Play It Again
Overbooked
Bio-Degradable
Neologism, the Name of My Desire
A New Nobel
Gotcha
Literary Tippling
Great Talk
Stop and Smell the Prose
Can’t Take That Away from Me
A Sad Case of Mono
Political Shopping
The High Miles Club
Rolodeath
Confessions of a Craven Materialist
Hats Off
A Taxonomy of Bores
Send in the Clowns
No Acknowledgment Needed
Dear Editor
Don’t Tutoyer Me, Pal
Don’t Ask, Multitask
HMS Punafor
Jervis
Foot Fop
You Got Attitude?
The Game of the Name
Upsizing
Singing (Sort of) in the Rain
The Eppy and Other Jackets
The Enlivening Sins
Mr. Epstein Regrets
The Worried Well
The Language Snob, Reinvented
Looking for King Kong
A Walker Outside the City
Penman
Popcorn Palaces
Situation Comedy
All the News Unfit to Read
Sorry, Charlie
Book Swining
Khaki-Pantsman
A Cheap Night Out
An Offer I Could Refuse
Back on the Bus
The Food of My People
No Opinion
The Attack on the Hot Dog
Shine
Marginalized
Paid Subscriber
Quote-idian
Let Old Acquaintance Be Forgot
It’s Only a Movie
Jacques Barzun: An Appreciation
Fighting Poverty
Mel Lasky
“Won’t You Join Me?”
They Said I Was Low-Tech . . .
Letter from Bedlam
Tailor-Made
Sublime Competence
Do Go Changin’
The Postman Won’t Even Ring Once
A Secret Vice
Orchidacious
Switch & Rebate
Early Riser
Fred
No Joke
The Big Picture
Trend Stopping
Santayana’s Chair
The Artist Athlete
Fat Moe, Hot Doug, and Big Herm
Out of Business
Plagiary, It’s Crawling All Over Me
The Perils of Prolificacy
A Plague of Phones
Perchance to Dream
Spandexless
$129 on the Dotted Line
Cleaning Up My Act
Don’t Call Me Ishmael
Memory Laine
Excellent Choice
Gimme Shelter
Negative Pleasures
It’s Only a Hobby
Vernon
The Unnaturals
Cool Chapeau, Man
Prizeless
Another Season, No Whoopee
Funny Papers
Fit To Be Tied
Sound Off
Joseph Epstein Has a Cold
Home Mechanic
A Happy Problem
Adios, Gray Lady
Full Slab
Dancing with Wolves
Bye, Bye, High Five
Kindle at the Cleaners
At Moral Rest in Old New York
Katie in Kabul
The Divine Miss H
Bring It on, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Down the AmaZone
The Proustian Solution
The Great Apartment Hunt
Weepers Keepers
Audio-Dismal Aids
Go Google Yourself
Pretensions à la Carte
The Greatest Story Never Read
Toting a Dumb Phone
Nostalgia Organized
A Condition in Need of a Label
Hold the Gluten
The Reluctant Bibliophile
Making a Spectacles of Myself
Portnoy’s Children
The Issue Issue
How I Learned to Love the Draft
Unsentimental Journey
Everyone Has His Price
Incommunicado
That’s a Nickel
Funny, But I Do Look Jewish
Cuppa Joe
The Divine Miss H, Revisited
Remembering Torelli
Original Publication Information for Essays in this Book
Index
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