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Index
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
SPOOFS
Death in the Rumble Seat
Dusk in Fierce Pajamas
Across the Street and into the Grill
On the Sidewalk
Save My Seat
Hassidic Tales, With a Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar
The Ultimate Diary
The Analytic Napkin
Who’s Who in the Cast
Health Department Lists Restaurant Violations
The Delts of Venus
Notes from the Edge Conference
LGA-ORD
Love Trouble Is My Business
In the New Canada, Living Is a Way of Life
Corrections
Stardate 12:00 12:00 12:00
Glengarry Glen Plaid
Gum
What We Talk About When We Talk About Doughnuts
Teen Times
THE FRENZY OF RENOWN
Press Agents I Have Known
The Greatest Man in the World
The Interview
Let’s Hear It for a Beautiful Guy
The King of Jazz
My Mao
Our Side of the Story
Do You Know Me?
Gandhi at the Bat
Igor Stravinsky: The Selected Phone Calls
We Are Still Married
Meeting Famous People
Yo, Poe
My Life: A Series of Privately Funded Performance-Art Pieces
The A-List E-List
THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife
A Couple of Hamburgers
Forever Panting
The Kugelmass Episode
Partners
My Married Life: The Whole Truth Thus Far
Life Without Leann
Zeus the Lutheran
The Very Comical Lament of Pyramus and Thisbe
Off-Ramp
Blown Away
Here’s a Really Great Idea
THE WRITING LIFE
A Short Autobiography
The Cliché Expert Takes the Stand
The Cliché Expert Tells All
How to Achieve Success as a Writer
The Rather Difficult Case of Mr. K A P L A N
The Notebooks of James Thurber
Are We Losing the Novel Race?
Roland Magruder, Freelance Writer
Contemporary Writers VI: An Interview with Grip Sands
In the Dough
Selections from the Allen Notebooks
I Cover Carter
Notes on My Conversations
Writing Is Easy!
Drivel
Emily Dickinson, Jerk of Amherst
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED
The People Who Had the House Before
The Catastrophe
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been, a Matrix of Lean Meat
Eine Kleine Mothmusik
Monomania, You and Me Is Quits
Pnin
Annoy Kaufman, Inc.
The Last Repository
YMA Dream
Ainmosni
The High Ground, or Look, Ma, I’m Explicating
Apartment 6-A: After the Fall
Spill
Hearing from Wayne
Stunned
He Didn’t Go to Canada
Post-Euphoria
Keith Richards’ Desert-Island Disks
WORDS OF ADVICE
How to Be Obscene
Filling That Hiatus
It’s Fun to Be Fooled . . . It’s More Fun to Know
Why We Laugh—or Do We?
Insert Flap “A” and Throw Away
How to Eat an Ice-Cream Cone
Teaching Poetry Writing to Singles
Dating Your Mom
A Reading List for Young Writers
How I Write My Songs
Save Our Bus Herds!
Three Great Meals
Read This First
Take It from Me
Changes in the Memory After Fifty
The Hundred Greatest Books That I’ve Read
Reintroducing Me to My Habitat
Thank You for Stopping
Homework: A Parent’s Guide
What Happened to My Money?
RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS
On Taxi Drivers
Father Isn’t Much Help
The Night the Ghost Got In
Ring Out, Wild Bells
The Ballet Visits the Splendide’s Magician
Cloudland Revisited: Why, Doctor, What Big Green Eyes You Have!
Thoughts on Radio-Televese
The Musical Husbands
Listening to Bourbon
Look Back in Hunger
Tennis Personalities
Car Talk
VERSE
Critic
Song to Be Disregarded
To a Perfumed Lady at the Concert
Song of the Queen Bee
Rhyme of an Involuntary Violet
Fulfilment
Bohemia
Mother’s Home Again!
Melancholy Reflections After a Lost Argument
The Seven Ages of a Newspaper Subscriber
Incident in the Afternoon
Procrastination Is All of the Time
To My Valentine
So That’s Who I Remind Me Of
Compliments of a Friend
The Invitation Says from Five to Seven
Theme and Variation
People
Six Poets in Search of a Lawyer
The Naked and the Nude
12 O’Clock News
Christmas in Qatar
Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums
Ocular Hypertension
Endnotes
Notes on Contributors
About the Editors
Copyright
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