On rereading : foreword / Anne Fadiman
Marginal notes on the inner lives of people with cluttered apartments in the east seventies : Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger / David Samuels
Relics of Saint Katherine : the journal, letters, and stories of Katherine Mansfield / Patricia Hampl
Love's wound, love's salve : Pan, by Knut Hamsun / Sven Birkerts
Whitman's triumph : "Song of myself", by Walt Whitman / Vijay Seshadri
Kid Roberts and me : The leather pushers, by H. C. Witwer / Arthur Krystal
My life with a field guide : A field guide to wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North America, by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny / Diana Kappel Smith
companion of the prophet : Arthur Rimbaud, by Enid Starkie / Luc Sante
Three doctors' daughters : the Sue Barton books, by Helen Dore Boylston / Katherine Ashenburg
"You shall hear of me" : Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad / Jamie James
Love with a capital L : The vagabond and The shackle, by Colette / Vivian Gornick
Stead made me do it : House of all nations, by Christina Stead / Michael Upchurch
Pemberley previsited : Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen / Allegra Goodman
Lawrence by lightning : The virgin and the gypsy, by D. H. Lawrence / Pico Iyer
ice palace : "The snow queen," by Hans Christian Andersen / Barbara Sjoholm
Revisiting Brideshead : Brideshead revisited, by Evelyn Waugh / Evelyn Toynton
pursuit of worldliness : The charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal / Phillip Lopate
back of the album : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by the Beatles / David Michaelis.
