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Introduction; Acknowledgments; Poetry for a Tiny Room; Spring's Fruits in Autumn; The Corruption of the Exotic; Why, This is Hell; On the End of Every Fork; Into the Mass Mangle; Bitter-sweet Savour; The Big Daddy of the Beats; The Seventeenth Novel; Here Parla Man Marcommunish; The Book is Not for Reading; The Comedy of Ultimate Truths; Europe's Day of the Dead; Surprise from the Grave; Last Exit to Brooklyn; A Good Read; Bless Thee, Bottom?; Like Mr Priestley, Enjoying It; The Waste Land; My Life and Times; On Lengthy Matters
Last of the Literary DandiesFive-Finger Exercises; Creeping Towards Salvation; A Very Blasphemous Fallacy; Glittering Prizes; A Talent to Remember; Jong in Triumph; Partridge in a Word Tree; A Movie that Changed my Life; By-products of the Ink Trade; Pilgrimage; Finks and Winchells; The School of Jesuits; Last Embers of Modernism; Medieval Sherlock; The Lords of Limit; Locutions of Sex and Death; Why I Write; Still Life; The Anachronist Strikes Back; Spirit of Cervantes; Defector as Hero; Where Sex Meets Self-Improvement; The Academic Critic and the Living Writer
The Master of Erudite SilenceVerbal Subversions; Eye of a Stranger; Wilde with all Regret; Mr Gibbon and the Huns; The Literature Industry; The Man Who Invented Himself; Bunn in the Oven; A Strong Whiff of Kif from Tangier; The Life of Graham Greene; Joyce as Novelist; Can Art be Immoral?; Getting the Language Right; Stop the Clock on Violence; Confessions of the Hack Trade; Index
Last of the Literary DandiesFive-Finger Exercises; Creeping Towards Salvation; A Very Blasphemous Fallacy; Glittering Prizes; A Talent to Remember; Jong in Triumph; Partridge in a Word Tree; A Movie that Changed my Life; By-products of the Ink Trade; Pilgrimage; Finks and Winchells; The School of Jesuits; Last Embers of Modernism; Medieval Sherlock; The Lords of Limit; Locutions of Sex and Death; Why I Write; Still Life; The Anachronist Strikes Back; Spirit of Cervantes; Defector as Hero; Where Sex Meets Self-Improvement; The Academic Critic and the Living Writer
The Master of Erudite SilenceVerbal Subversions; Eye of a Stranger; Wilde with all Regret; Mr Gibbon and the Huns; The Literature Industry; The Man Who Invented Himself; Bunn in the Oven; A Strong Whiff of Kif from Tangier; The Life of Graham Greene; Joyce as Novelist; Can Art be Immoral?; Getting the Language Right; Stop the Clock on Violence; Confessions of the Hack Trade; Index