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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Note from the Publisher of the Updated Edition
Introduction by Jeff Baker
I. NOTES ON READING
Books in Cars
On Reading in Bed
Your Life List: or, What to Read When
Reading the Refrigerator
The Beauty of the Book
On the Habit of Reading
Smelliterature
A Note on Surreptitiously Reading Other People’s Bookshelves
Summer Reading: a Note
A Note on Finally Being Ready for Some Books, Thank Heavens
A Note on Public Literature
Why Portland, Oregon, Is the Coolest Literary City in the West
A Note On Seriesousness
Booklessness
A Note on How We Slow Down Near the End of a Terrific Book, Reluctant to Leave That Wondrous World
The Box Scores
A Note on Ceasing to Read
Tenant Lease Agreement (Addendum)
Banning the Ban on Books
The Newspaperness of Newspapers
On the Pleasures of Reading the Port Calendar in the Newspaper
A Note on the Similarity of Books to the People Who Read Them
II. NOTES ON WRITING
Apostrophism: a Note
What Writers Think
Mr Borges
A Finger of Speech
Mr Hillerman
A Note on the Misuse of Adverbs
A Modest Proposal for Poetry Inspectors
How Did You Become a Writer?
On Dining with the Wonderful Writer Gavan Daws
Mister Burns
Mr Soisson
On Noticing a Man Reading My Sprawling Novel on a Train
Playfulnessness: a Note
No
Mr Dubus
Novelizing
Writing Oregon
On Renaming Almost Everything in the Known Universe
A Bogey Tale
Scribbling & Dribbling: a Note
The Dark Joys of the Book Review
Auto Correct: a Note
Selling Stories
Shoshana
The Poem Is Everything Else Except the Lines on the Page
Seantences
Catholic Journalism: a Note
Review: Bin Laden’s Bald Spot & Other Stories, by Brian Doyle
On Failing to Properly Return a Terrific Book by Jan Morris
The New Book
Unpublished Snippets from an Interview with the Author His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Józef Korzeniowski: a Note
“…These the Visions of Eternity…”
On Not Saying Yes to the Irrepressible Terence O’Donnell One Night Years Ago When He Said Hey Let’s Get a Beer
The Secretary to the Famous Author Answers the Morning Mail
The Christmas Letter
Acknowledgments
Books by Brian Doyle
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