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Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents 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 Burglar Alarm 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 Heroes and Anti-Heroes, photographs by members of the Magnum Coöperative 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 Camus Made New 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

Biographies

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

Photos

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” Note on “My Father on the Verge of Disgrace” 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 Remembering Reading Don Quixote The Ten Greatest Works of Literature, 1001–2000 Remarks on Religion and Contemporary Literature Accepting the Campion Medal Accepting the National Book Foundation Medal

Illustration Credits Dedication Acknowledgments Other Books by This Author About the Author

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