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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
I. Talking Furniture
O.K. Corral Revisited
Liv and Let Die: Scenes from a Marriage
Hartman Is the Best Thing About Lear
Stanley Siegel: Jack Paar in the Age of est
The Vindication of Vanessa Redgrave: Playing for Time
The Crane-Shot That Captured Christmas: SCTV
Potter’s Reel: The Singing Detective
Designing Couple: Designing Women
“X” Factor: The X-Files
Prime Time’s Graduation
II. Comedians
Who’s Laughing Now?: Is Stand-Up Comedy Dead on Its Feet?
Late Night
What Keeps Johnny on Top? Insincerity!
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
The Swivel Throne
Letterman Unbound
Great Carson’s Ghost!
Jerry Lewis: Last Tuxedo Standing
Christopher Guest: Mystery Guest
Mort Sahl: Mort the Knife
III. Punk, Pop, Rock
Patti x Two
Patti Smith: Mustang Rising
Tarantula Meets Mustang: Dylan Calls On Patti Smith
The Ramones: Chord Killers
A Conservative Impulse in the New Rock Underground
Lou Reed Rising
John Cale Refuses to Die
Richard Hell Comes in Spurts
Johnny Rotten x Two
Kiss Me, You Fool: Sex Pistols 77
Rotten and Vicious: Rotten, John Lydon
The Noise Boys: Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer
The Bollocks: Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
The Lives of Albert Goldman
When They Were Kings: The Rat Pack
IV. Movies
French Fries and Sympathy: Diner
Your Flick of Flicks: My Favorite Year
Brian De Palma x Three
The Godfather Goes Slumming: Scarface
Double Trouble: Body Double
De Palma and the Women
Of Vice and Mann
Sam Peckinpah: Slay ’em Again, Sam
A Fistful of Woodys
The Great White Woody: Broadway Danny Rose
Liquid Shimmer: Purple Rose of Cairo
Upper West Side Story: Hannah and Her Sisters
How Green Was My Woody
Death and the Master: Alfred Hitchcock
New York Noir
The Executioners
Rock Hudson and Doris Day: Lovers Come Back
From Fear to Eternity: The Americanization of Emily
An Unforgettable Face: A Face in the Crowd
V. Books, Authors, Critics
Knowledge Is Good?: The Intellectual Killer Elite
On the Ropes: Selected Letters, Ernest Hemingway
Stop Me Before I Write Again: A Bloodsmoor Romance, Joyce Carol Oates
Richard Ford: Guns and Poses
Three Critics
Manny Farber’s Termite Art
The Stand-Up Critic: Mudrick Transcribed: Classes and Talks by Marvin Mudrick
Seymour Krim: Foreword to What’s This Cat’s Story?
R.I.P.: Edie: An American Biography, Jean Stein
Life Among the Ninnies: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Seven (1966–1974)
Philip Larkin’s Enormous Yes
Amis Père et Fils
The Old Devil: Difficulties with Girls, Kingsley Amis
Kingsley’s Ransom
The Amis Papers
The Yob That Failed: Lionel Asbo: State of England, Martin Amis
Updike x Three
Running on Empty: Rabbit Is Rich
Caretaker/Pallbearer: The Widows of Eastwick
The Prince of Finesse: Hugging the Shore
It’s Still Cheever Country: Cheever: A Life, Blake Bailey
Ayn Rand: Rand Inquisitor
Kerouac’s Lonesome Road
Remaking It: New York Days, Willie Morris; Kafka Was the Rage, Anatole Broyard
The Truman Show: Truman Capote, George Plimpton
William Shawn: The Love Bug
Norman Mailer: The Norman Conquests
Bow. Wow.: Gore Vidal, Fred Kaplan
I Adore Your Mustache: Selected Letters of William Styron
Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author
Other Books by This Author
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