| Description |
xiv, 265 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
A question of plumage -- On unanswering letters -- The perfect reader -- On visiting bookshops -- Fall fever -- The art of walking -- Time to light the furnace -- On making friends -- The tragedy of Washington Square -- 17 Heriot Row -- Safety pins -- Tadpoles -- Ingo -- A venture in mysticism -- On going to bed -- A casual on the sea -- Dame Quickly and the boilroaster -- What men live by -- Broad Street Station -- The shore in September -- Putting the city to bed -- 1100 words -- |
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Thoughts in the subway -- Gissing joins a country club -- Letting out the furnace -- The return to town -- On filling an ink-well -- The university and the urchin -- Surf fishing -- The apple that no one ate -- The anatomy of Manhattan -- The autogenesis of a poet -- Have faith in poets -- Moby Walt -- The key ring -- Fellow craftsmen -- A Japanese bachelor -- To a New Yorker a hundred years hence -- If buying a meal were like buying a house -- A message for Boonville -- Walt Whitman miniatures -- A separation -- The unwritten book -- Doors. |
| Genre/Form |
American fiction.
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