New York is a city of things unnoticed -- Frank Sinatra has a cold -- Loser -- Silent season of a hero -- Peter O'Toole on the Ould Sod -- Vogueland -- Looking for Hemingway -- Joe Louis: The King as a middle-aged man -- Mr. Bad News -- Ali in Havana -- Brave tailors of Maida -- Origins of a nonfiction writer -- When I was twenty-five -- Walking my cigar.