Selected misdemeanors : Essays at the mercy of the reader / Sue William Silverman.

Author's Note
Part 1. Strange Entanglements. At the Apollo Theatre
Coming Attractions
Child Care
On Understanding Time for the First Time
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time When She Was Forced to Hold the Crayon . . .
Scratching the Surface
Time Travel for Beginners
Postcard: The Berkshires
A Treatise on Dark Matter(s)
Learning the Antimatter of What Matters
Retainer
Postcard: Monhegan Island, Maine
Harbor Lights
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time in Puerto Rico . . .
7-Up as a Cure for Irony
The Silence Detector
My Russian Heritage
Drinks for All Occasions
Snow on Cherries
Love Deferment
Miss Demeanor Considers the First of Many Jobs . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Lived in a Room . . .
Respect, Almost
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Posed as an Israeli . . .
Manilow Fidelity
Carry On
Part 2. How To and How Not. Library with Hyacinth, Girl, and Guns
How To
How to Find a Snow Leopard in Georgia
Negative Capabilities
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Hid . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Was Married . . .
Mug Shots with Fellow Fugitives
The Poetic Sentence
Missing the Clues
On Liminality
Exchange Rates
Remembrance of Things Past
The Long Road Out of Eden
Postcard: Greetings from Atlantic City!
The Undertaking
Reflections on Blue Velvet
The Family Chiroptera
The Soft Beauty of an Ordinary Life
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Stood under the Boardwalk . . .
Trashy
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time between Hippiedom and Adulthood . . .
Degas Paints the Chippendales and Me
Part 3. Grieflets. Too
Grieflets
Psyche Ward, Drought
Expiration Date
Against Ruin
Emerald Isle
Al Di Là
Into the Wild of the Calm
The Lost Art of the Near Tilt
The Origin of Her Superpowers
Miss Demeanor Must Consider, Whether She Wants to or Not . . .
Miss Demeanor Must Also Consider the Time Her Father . . .
Tinea Capitis
A Grand Unified Theory of Disease
Organ Music
Dyscalculia
Postcard: The Big Apple!
Postcard: New York City
Xeroxing Christie
Miss Demeanor Considers the Time She Got Her First Author Photo . . .
Miss Demeanor Considers Her Desk (Messy Like Her Life) . . .
The Memory Box
Seeking Paradise on the Road to Nowhere.