Assorted prose

The American man: what of him?

Anywhere is where you hang you hat

What is a rhyme?

Drinking from a cup made cinchy

On the sidewalk

Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize

Confessions of a wild bore

The unread book route

Alphonse Peintre

Mr. Ex-resident

Central Park

No dodo

Voices in the Biltmore

Our own Baedeker

Postal complaints

Old and precious

Spatial remarks

Dinosaur egg

Upright carpentry

Crush vs. whip

Métro gate

Cancelled

Morality play

Obfuscating coverage

Bryant Park

John Marquand

Two heroes

Doomsday, Mass.

Grandma Moses

Spring rain

Eisenhower's eloquence

Mostly glass

Three documents

Free bee-hours

Beer can

Modern art

The assassination

T.S. Eliot

The dogwood tree: a boyhood

The lucid eye in silver town

My uncle's death

Outing: a family anecdote

Mea culpa: a travel note

Eclipse

Poetry from Downtroddendom

Snow from a dead sky

Franny and Zooey

Credos and curios

Beerbohm and others

Rhyming Max

No use talking

Stuffed fox

Honest horn

Faith in search of understanding

Tillich

More love in the western world

A foreword for young readers

Creatures of the air

Between a wedding and a funeral

How How it is was

Grandmaster Nabokov.