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Foreword | |
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Introduction: Ancient Mariners and Airport Motels | |
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The Seventies | |
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Dream Dancing | |
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Secrets of the Little Blue Box | |
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Inside the Canned Laughter War | |
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The Subterranean World of the Bomb | |
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Of a Fire at the Billy Rose | |
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Dead Ringers | |
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Troy Donahue Was Always Just Like He Is | |
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A Killing in Camelot | |
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Chariots of the Insurance Salesmen | |
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The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones | |
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The Corpse as Big as the Ritz | |
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Whipple's Last Squeeze | |
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The Eighties | |
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The Connoisseur of Scoundrels | |
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God's Fillin' Teeth! | |
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead | |
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The Frantic Screaming Voice of the Rich and Famous | |
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The Passions of Mario Cuomo | |
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Tales from the Cancer Cure Underground | |
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Oswald's Ghost | |
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Link Founding Father to Sleaze King | |
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Back on the Watergate Case with Inspector RN | |
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Jack Nicholson: The Devil and the Details | |
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial-Killer Hoax | |
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The Nineties and After | |
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The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal | |
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The Riddle of the Scrolls | |
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In the Nabokov Archives | |
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Mr. Bill's House of Horror (Bill Gates) | |
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Fear and Loathing in the Zagat Guide | |
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My Theater Problem - and Ours | |
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The Emperor's New Logo (Lucent) | |
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Chaplin and Benigni: The Arrogance of Clowns | |
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Kim Philby: The Spy Who Created the Cold | |
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The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro | |
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To the Shores of Light - Or, My First Latin Lesson | |
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Much Ado about "Nothing" in Two New Translations of Genesis | |
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Floored by Dickens and Dombey | |
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An Ode to Helen Vendler, Goddess of Keats's "Autumn" | |
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Hart Crane's Hieroglyphs: The Unmentionable Truth | |
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Dr. Borges and Dr. Ron Solve the Problem of Memory and Regret | |
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The Catcher in the Driveway | |
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Long Island, Babylon | |
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The Pissing Contest: Oliver Stone versus Quentin Tarantino | |
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Charles Portis and the Locked Trunk Secret | |
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Is Thomas Pynchon "Wanda Tinasky"? | |
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Ecstatic Mortification: The Self-loathing Spirituality of Martin Amis | |
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The Hidden History in Ben Hecht's Suitcase | |
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A (Modest) Proposal to Rosanne Cash | |
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Elvis, Healer | |
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Victims of The Dance | |
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The Unbearable Sadness of Tear Gas | |
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Spiritual Lessons from L. A. | |
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Stumpy versus Lucille: The Great Pet Debate | |
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Explaining Hitler | |
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Singer's Shadows: Footnotes to Hitler | |
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Explaining Pharaoh | |
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This "Rarest Dream": The Final Affirmation of Shakespearean Romance | |
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Sources | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |