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Index
Preface
Large Matters
MATTERS OF STATE
Freedom and Equality: Two American Bluebirds
The State of the Union, as of March 1992
Letter to a Baby Boomer
The Fifties
GENDER AND HEALTH
The Disposable Rocket
Women Dancing
Get Thee Behind Me, Suntan
V
Lust
The Song of Solomon
LITERATURE
Religion and Literature
Fiction: A Dialogue
Print: A Dialogue
A Different Ending
THE GLITTERING CITY
GEOGRAPHICAL, CALENDRICAL, TOPICAL
On the Edge
People Wrapped to Go
One Big Bauble
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
That Syncing Feeling
Paranoid Packaging
Hostile Haircuts
Glad Rags
Addressing the Scandal Glut
Manifesto
Car Talk
The Gentlemen of Summer
Bodies Beautiful
Golf in the Land of the Free
The Vineyard Remembered
The Sun the Other Way Around
The Cold
Matter under Review
INTRODUCTIONS
To “The Seducer’s Diary,” a chapter of Either/Or
To The Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville
To The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
To Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green
To The Best American Short Stories 1984
To Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by George Plimpton
To Writers on Writers, compiled by Graham Tarrant
To The Art of Mickey Mouse, edited by Craig Yoe and Janet Morra-Yoe
To My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg, by Al Capp
AMERICAN PAST MASTERS
Reworking Wharton
The Key-People
Laughter from the Yokels
Stevens as Dutchman
Wilson as Cape Codder
The Critic in Winter
An Ohio Runaway
Happiness, How Sad
Cheever on the Rocks
Sirin’s Sixty-Five Shimmering Short Stories
NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES
Recruiting Raw Nerves
Doctorpoe
Excellent Humbug
The Good Book as Cookbook
Him and Who?
Mayhem at the Hospital
Tummy Trouble in Tinseltown
Soap and Death in America
Awriiiighhhhhhhht!
Stones into Bread
Barney Looks Back
People Fits
OVERSEAS
Mandarins
Proust Died for You
Omniumgatherum
Man Is an Island
Muriel Goes to the Movies
God Save Ingushetia
“Live” Spelled Backwards
On the Edge of the Post-Human
Nightmares and Daymares
Undelivered Remarks upon Awarding the 1992 GPA Book Award in Dublin
Idle Thoughts of a Toiling Tiler
Dark Walker
Angels in Holland
Vagueness on Wheels, Dust on a Skirt
Life Was Elsewhere
Of Sickened Times
Gender Benders
OTHER CONTINENTS
A Woman’s Continent
A Heavy World
Between Montparnasse and Mt. Pelée
Nobody Gets Away with Everything
Shadows and Gardens
Mountain Miseries
Two Anglo-Indian Novels
A Note on Narayan
MEDLEYS
Glasnost, Honne, and Conquistadores
Posthumous Output
Novel Thoughts
Elusive Evil
The Properties of Things
Such a Sucker as Me
Man of Secrets
Not Quite Adult
Large for Her Years
Cubism’s Marketeer
Smiling Bob
This Side of Coherence
The Man Within
Shirley Temple Regina
THINGS AS THEY ARE
An Undeciphered Residue
At the Hairy Edge of the Possible
Things, Things
Box Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar Code
The Flamingo-Pink Decade
The Liberation of the Legs
She’s Got Personality
Among Canines
Fine Points
Oh, It Was Sad
2000, Here We Come
Visible Matter
MOVIES
The Old Movie Houses
Samson and Delilah and Me
Legendary Lana
M.M. in Brief
The Vargas Girl
Genial, Kinetic Gene Kelly
The Domestic Camera
A Bookish Boy
An Ecstatic State
A Woman’s Burden
Descent of an Image
Introduction to The Writer’s Desk, by Jill Krementz
Introduction to The First Picture Book—Everyday Things for Babies, by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen
Facing Death
Nadar’s Swift Tact
ART
Fast Art
The Revealed and the Concealed
Fun Furniture
Acts of Seeing
Big, Bright, and Bendayed
A Case of Monumentality
Verminous Pedestrians and Car-Tormented Streets
Funny Faces
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
The Frick
Personal Matters
Updike and I
Me and My Books
The Short Story and I
Introduction to Self-Selected Stories
Foreword to Love Factories
Foreword to “Brother Grasshopper”
Note on “A Sandstone Farmhouse”
Note on “Playing with Dynamite”
Foreword to “The Women Who Got Away”
Karl Shapiro
Three New Yorker Stalwarts (William Shawn, William Maxwell, Brendan Gill)
Note for an Exhibit of New Yorker Cartoons
My Cartooning
Cartoon Magic
Christmas Cards
A Childhood Transgression
Remembering Pearl Harbor
Reflections on Radio
Remembering Reading, Pa.
An Hour of the Day
Home in New England
Introduction to Concerts at Castle Hill
Accepting the Bobst Award
Foreword to John Updike: A Bibliography
Accepting the National Book Critics Circle Award
Accepting the Howells Medal
Introduction to the Easton Press Edition of the Rabbit Novels
Henry Bech Interviews Updike
“Special Message” for the Franklin Library Edition of Memories of the Ford Administration
“Special Message” for the Franklin Library Edition of Brazil
“Special Message” for the Franklin Library Edition of In the Beauty of the Lilies
“Special Message” for the Franklin Library Edition of Toward the End of Time
Two Belated “Talk of the Town” Stories ( “TV in NYC,” “Amazon.com” )
Foreword to the French translation of Facing Nature
Humor These Days
An Answer to a Usual Question
Books That Changed My Life
Five Remembered Moments of Reading Bliss
The Ten Greatest Works of Literature, 1001–2000
Accepting the Campion Medal
Remarks on Religion and Contemporary Literature
Accepting the National Book Foundation Medal
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