Real Conversation The Writer in Winter A Desert Encounter Nessus at Noon The Football Factory The Beloved The Lens Factory Five Poems : Basium XVI ; Head of a Girl, at the Met ; Cafeteria, Mass. General Hospital ; An Hour Without Color ; Not Cancelled Yet Book Chat Humor in Fiction Lives and Laurels : Soren Kierkegaard ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Ernest Hemingway ; Kurt Vonnegut ; L. E. Sissman ; Raymond Carver Forewords and afterwords : The Haunted Major, by Robert Marshall ; The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball ; The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov ; The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison Works and Days : The Changeling ; Back-Chat, Funny Cracks ; Imperishable Maxwell ; Basically Decent Fiction Now : Hugger-Mugger ; Classics Galore ; A Boston Fable ; Nan, American Man ; An Upstate Saga ; Relative Strangers ; Dreamy Wilderness Americana: Famous Aimee ; Laissez-faire is More ; Makeup and Make-Believe ; Sparky from St. Paul
Gallery Tours Old Masters : A Wistful Wurzburger ; Singular in Everything ; More Light on Delft ; Plain and Simplified Romantics and Realists : "Therefore I Print" ; Innerlichkeit and Eigentumlichkeit ; Splendid Lies ; A Lean and Optical Dane ; Lear Far and Near ; The Artist as Trailblazer Van Gogh and Seurat : Uncertain Skills, Determined Spirit ; The Purest of Styles ; Pointillism in Black and White Secessionists and Surrealists : Can Genitals Be Beautiful? ; New Kind on the Block ; Beyond Real ; The Enduring Magritte ; Jean Ipousteguy Photographers : Visual Trophies ; Aftermaths Pet Topics The Universe : The Valiant Swabian ; Visions of Mars ; Extreme Dinosaurs The Commonwealth : Harvard Square in the Fifties ; Ipswich in the Seventies ; Three Texts from Early Ipswich ; Lovell Thompson ; Open Spaces ; Memoirs of a Massachusetts Golfer The Game : In Love with a Wanton ; Playing with Better Players ; Walking Insomnia ; Lost Balls ; Being Senior
In Defense of the Amateur Reader
A Poetics of Book Reviewing
An American View of English Fiction
Comment on "Poetry's Failure in the Marketplace"
Foreword to the 1982 Edition of The Carpentered Hen
Introduction to the 1977 Edition of The Poorhouse Fair
From the Afterword to Buchanan Dying
Reply to Paul Boyer's Appraisal of Memories of the Ford Administration
Letter to Rosemary Herbert, Book Review Editor of the Boston Herald, Anent Gertrude and Claudius
Introduction to Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
Foreword to The Early Stories: 1953-1975
Foreword to Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories
Replies to Three Questions About Licks of Love
The Original Ending of Self-Consciousness
Letter Included as an Afterword to the introduction of Updike in Cincinnati
The Courage of Ballplayers
Commencement Address, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993
Accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
