More Mirth of a Nation电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

How to Meditate Faster

Representative Government: A Correspondence

Diva Checklist

The Inaugural Address of President George W. Bush

Election 2000

Emily Dickinson, Jerk of Amherst

I Was Alan Greenspan’s Roadie

The Talent Competition

My Week As a Nielsen Family: A Memoir

The Self-Help Hot Line

My Own Private I.P.O.

Do Svidannya, Baby!

Losers’ Auction

Portrait of the Postmodern Renaissance Man As Quilt Stitcher, Filmmaker, Deep Thinker, and Sculptor of Cubes of Tofu in Vats of Water

Packing for the Second Coming

Ah-Choo! A Guide to the New Hankie Code

My Wife Liz

Ads: The Final Frontier

Real-Life Survivor

Sixteen Magazine Rates the Presidents

Your Y2K Checklist

WNPR AM910: “Your Public Radio Station”

Double Diamond/ Highest Difficulty: “Your Public Radio Station”

Decision ’04

The Periodic Table of Rejected Elements

Happy Holidays from Maria Callas

Once, Twice, Three Times a Visdalen Three Tries at Mocking IKEA

Letter to Ken Burns

Five Columns from Media Person

Carpool Tunnel Syndrome

You Fill Out My Census

Clarifications

Audiobooks for the Deaf

Holy Tango of Poetry

Drawing Inky

For Whom the Tale Blows (or The Curtain Also Rises)

Amenities

Vincent at the Knobs

A Brush with Greatness

Hall of Near-Fame

Near-Deathbed Requests

The Breakfast Table

From The Real-Life Worst-Case-Scenario Survival Handbook

A Short Historical Inquiry into Time

An Open Letter to the Firefighters of Engine Company 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 in the Glass Booth on the Corner of Eighth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street

A Fish Story

Real-Life Giant Construction Equipment for Kids

Bubba in Paradise

Mu∫ter the Troops! The Deal Memo of Independence

Monks Among the Capri Pants

Full Disclosure

Preface to My Autobiography

Studies in the New Causality

Disgruntled Former Lexicographer

New Roller Coasters Opening This Season

Because Yahoo Maps Aren’t for Everybody

Our New Password Policies

La Bamba Hot Line

All Shook Up

Terms of Office

The Greatest Hastily Written Short Notes of the Twentieth Century

Anchors Weigh In

Who Wants to Keep His Job?

You May Already Be a Winner

Costuming the Homeless

The Nano-Pet Epoch

Subvarsity Smackdown

Adventures with Rod and Gumshoe

WELLNESS911

My Word Is Beer Bottleneck Realism from America’s Finest Microbrews

A Guide to the Lesser-Known: Movie Ratings

Looking for a Supporting Role, Willing to Play Vice President

The Busman’s Portfolio

New York Confidential

Internet Stocks Too Hot to Ignore

49 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth

How I’m Doing

Virtual Friends

Ripoff!

What Happened to My Money?

Post-Valentine’s Day Special State Dates

Your Neighborhood Laundraclean

Three Christmas Candies

Womenu

Alfred Hitchcock’s: Hamlet

Aristotle’s “On Baseball”

The First Book of Mailer, Called Genesis

Cosi Fans Tutti The Granddaddy of Baseball Operas to Make Its Presence Felt

Altered History Death of the Blues

Blues for Beginners

Totally Amazing Grace

Teen Times

Fun with Names

Let’s Go Jupiter!

In the Spirit of Full Disclosure

The Solomon Bar Mitzvah

Questions Answered and Unanswered

Three Meaningless Fables

Schopenhaur Responds to Fleschman Re: Critique

Life’s Toughest Critics Zagat’s Surveys Existence

In Brief

The Party Problem

Dismembering Mr. Shawn’s: New Yorker

International Name Encyclopedia

Supplement to the Basic Course Catalog, University of Kansas

Excerpts from Men’s Self

The End-of-the-World

Submission Guidance

Questions for Reading Groups

Index

Notes on Contributors: Roger Director

Notes on Contributors: (Not By Roger Director)

About the Editor

Also Edited by Michael J. Rosen

The Short Essay that Conquered the Planet

Copyright

About the Publisher