From the Book - First edition.
1940s. A credo for the living 1950s. Freud The homosexual villain What I think of artistic freedom Raison d'être On lies, power, and obscenity Nomination of Ernest Hemingway for president, part I Nomination of Ernest Hemingway for president, part II The white Negro From surplus value to the mass media Quick evaluations on the talent in the room The mind of an outlaw 1960s. Superman comes to the supermarket An evening with Jackie Kennedy Suicides of Hemingway and Monroe Punching Papa Some children of the goddess Introducing our argument Our argument as last presented The crazy one Black Power Looking for the meat and potatoes thoughts on Black Power
1970s. Millett and D.H. Lawrence
Christ, Satan, and the Presidential candidate: a visit to Jimmy Carter in Plains
1980s. Before the literary bar
Until dead: thoughts on capital punishment
Discovering Jack H. Abbott
Marilyn Monroe's sexiest tapes and discs
All the pirates and people
Huckleberry Finn, alive at one hundred
The hazards and sources of writing
1990s. Review of American psycho
The best move lies close to the worst
Clinton and Dole: the War of the Oxymorons
2000s. Social life, literary desires, literary corruption
Review of The corrections
Gaining an empire, losing democracy?
The election and America's future
Comment on the passing of George Plimpton
