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The time of our time
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Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
©1998
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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1929 / Prelude- I. Boxing with Hemingway
1942 / Prelude- II. Our man at Harvard
1944 / The Second World War- I. The attack across the river
1944-1946 / The Second World War- II. The four dead Germans
1944 / The Second World War- III. The death of Mary Gallagher
1946-1949 / Aftermath
1949 / Portrait- I. Dorothy Parker
1949 / The second novel- II. Preface to Barbary Shore
Excerpts from Barbary Shore
1933-1948 / The Cold War- I. Lunch at 21
1952 / The Cold War- II. The man who studied yoga
1947-1951 / The Cold War- III. The face of the rock
1952 / Hollywood- I. Herman Teppis at the Laguna Room
1953 / Getting to know you- I. Miking it
1954 / Getting to know you
II. Homage to El Loco
1955-1956 / The Cold War- Iv. Imbibing Thursdays
1955-1957 / More than a bit of violence in me. Literary pain and shame
Quickly: a column for slow readers
The white negro: superficial reflections on the hipster
1956-1957 / Uruguay- I. The car windows were clouded
Uruguay- II. A course in counterespionage
Getting to know you- III. Night beat
1959 / Portrait- II. Truman Capote
1959 / A state of mind as declared in 1959. The shits are killing us
Hip, hell, and the navigator: an interview with Richard G. Stern and Robert F. Lucid
1956-1959 / Hollywood-II. The Jewish princess
1959 / The time of her time
1960 / Convention time. Modene-I
Superman comes to the supermarket- I
Modene- II
Superman comes to the supermarket- II
First Lady in waiting
Superman comes to the supermarket- III
Modene- III
1960-1961 / The shadow of the crime. A word from the author
An open letter to Fidel Castro
1960-1962 / Cuba. Washington- I: Preparing for the Bay of Pigs
Washington-II: Until just before the Bay of Pigs
Miami-I: The day after the Bay of Pigs
Washington- III: Keeping up with Modene
Miami-II: Artime and Castro
Miami- III: Poisoning Castro
New York-I: Whom?
1959-1962 / Hollywood- III. Marilyn and Arthur Miller
1960-1961 / Found objects- I.A mighty mother
Found objects- II. Oswald and Marina in Minsk
1961 / Kennedy, Castro, and Oswald. The six times zones between Dallas and Paris
Fort Worth to Dallas
A high-powered rifle
A visit to Lubyanka
Terribly bad characters
A hero to himself
The widow's elegy
The third widow
1963 / An American dream
1962-1966 / Conservatism and Liberalism. A debate with William Buckley
My hope for America: a review of a book by Lyndon B. Johnson
Excerpt from a Speech at Berkeley on Vietnam Day
A happy solution to Vietnam
1964-1966 / Why are we in Vietnam?
1965 / On the art of the absurd. Metaphor versus science
1967 / The armies of the night. The Liberal party
Toward a theater of ideas
A transfer of power
The marshal and the Nazi
1968 / Miami and the siege of Chicago. Bobby Kennedy
Gene McCarthy in Cambridge
Miami Beach, August 2-8
Chicago, August 24-29
Property
A massacre on Michigan Boulevard
Convention's end
1969 / Of a fire on the moon. The psychology of astronauts
Wernher Von Braun
Red and Mollie
Lift-off
The greatest week
A dream of the future's face
1971 / Women's liberation. The raging affair: Kate Millett and Henry Miller
Millett and D.H. Lawrence
Brooding over abortion
Togetherness
1971 / The Cavett Show with Gore Vidal and Janet Flanner
1972 / Four more years. St. George
Candidate Emeritus
A visit to Dr. Kissinger
Pat Nixon
Nixon comes to Miami
1972-1974 / Watergate. Into the credibility gap
Interview with Ehrlichman
A harlot high and low
Nixon's fall
1974 / The faith of graffiti
1974 / The fight. Bantu philosophy
King of the flunkies
The run
The impresario
The dressing room
Right hand leads
The man in the rigging
A long collapsing two seconds
1976 / Portrait- III. Christ, Satan, and the Presidential candidate
1977 / The Executioner's Song. Brenda, Johnny, and Gary
Gary and Nicole
The guns
Back in Jail
Gilmore and Gibbs
1000 B.C. / The embalming
1983-1984 / Amateurs- I. Excerpts from Tough Guys Don't Dance
1976-1982 / Amateurs- II. The best move lies close to the worst
1985 / Huckleberry Finn- alive at 100
1989 / A folly repeated. A speech on Salman Rushdie
1989 / The best of Abbie Hoffman
1991 / Children of the Pied Piper. A review of America Psycho
1991 / Creationism revisited
1991 / How the wimp won the war
1992 / By heaven inspired
1994 / Portrait- IV. Madonna
1996 / Portrait- V: Clinton and Dole. the war of the oxymorons
How the Pharaoh beat Bogey
1200 B.C. / the battle of Kadesh
1200 B.C. / Nefertiri and Menenhetet
1975 / In preface to the gospel- I. An interview on existentialism and karma
1962-1963 / In preface to the gospel-II. A Jewish limb on the Judeo-Christian ethic: miracles
1967 / In preface to the gospel- III. The communication of Christ
The gospel according to the son. John the Baptist and the devil
Faith and lack of faith
Judas
An entrance into Jerusalem
A dialogue with a scribe
Mary Magdalene
A resurrection
After death come limbo
The harbors of the moon.
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