| Description |
xi, 804 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Sam / Alec Wilkinson -- Fifth Avenue, uptown / James Baldwin -- And now let's hear it for the Ed Sullivan Show! / Donald Barthelme -- Long live the career smoker / Dave Eggers -- What is the difference between this photograph and a real frozen TV dinner? / M.F.K. Fisher -- Recollections of 1945 / Heinrich Boll -- New York at 6:30 p.m. / Dorothy Parker -- Moving out / John Cheever -- Why I live where I live / Walker Percy -- Staten Island, I love you! / Dawn Powell -- The golden age/time past / Ralph Ellison -- Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita syndrome / Simone de Beauvoir -- Mrs. Kennedy at the moment / Gloria Steinem -- A clean, well-lighted gym / Pete Dexter -- The $20 theory of the universe / Tom Chiarella -- Repeat after me / David Sedaris -- A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron -- The typewriter / Claes Oldenburg -- Twilight in the smog / Orson Welles -- Holy water / Joan Didion -- Is Truffaut the happiest man on earth? / François Truffaut -- What makes the newest Nixon run? / Garry Wills -- By midnight / Charles P. Pierce -- My father, the spy / John H. Richardson -- The last Titan / Sven Birkerts -- Two poems / Dylan Thomas -- Bill Pullman's face / Greil Marcus -- And the Leni Riefenstahl award for rabid nationalism goes to... / Tom Carson -- For the death of Vince Lombardi / James Dickey -- Hi, this is Marcel Proust, reporting from the Hamptons / John Leonard -- Tampa stomp / John Berryman -- Do you have what it takes to become a novelist? / John Gardner -- The more loving one / W.H. Auden -- There goes (VAROOM! VAROOM!) that kandy-kolored (THPHHHHHH!) tangerine-flake streamline baby (RAHGHHHH!) around the bend (BRUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...... / Tom Wolfe -- The transformation of Johnny Spain / Chip Brown -- Phantom of the opera / Martin Amis -- Grooving in Chi / Terry Southern -- Superman comes to the supermarket / Norman Mailer -- Falling / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc -- Hell sucks / Michael Herr -- A rumor of resistance / Philip Caputo -- My favorite teacher / Robert Kurson -- Everest at the bottom of the sea / Bucky McMahon -- A distasteful encounter with William F. Buckley Jr. / Gore Vidal -- The long fall of one-eleven heavy / Michael Paterniti -- Frank Sinatra has a cold / Gay Talese -- Can you say..."hero"? / Tom Junod -- Nick Nolte is racing the clock to repair the damage / Daniel Voll -- Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, limitation, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness / David Foster Wallace -- Gorgeous Dan / John Irving -- Zimmer / Scott Raab -- Old / Mike Sager -- What do you think of Ted Williams now? / Richard Ben Cramer |
| Subject |
Feature writing.
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| Added Author |
Miller, Adrienne.
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| Added Title |
Big book of great writing |
| ISBN |
1588162982 |
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9781588162984 |
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