ALSO BY CHARLES FORAN: -- Title Page -- Preface -- PLACES -- JOIN THE REVOLUTION, COMRADE: - My June 4th Obsession -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- THE ICE CRACKING AT DAWN: - A Memoir Of 9/11 -- WHY YOU SHOULD TRAVEL: - A Family in 9/11 Asia -- PRAY TO THE LORD OF THE LOTUS: - Floating In Old Siam -- THREE FILMS ABOUT VIETNAM: - Coppola, Kubrick And War Movies -- 1. Apocalypse Now (1979) -- 2. Full Metal Jacket (1987) -- 3. The Quiet American (remake, 2002) -- SHANGHAI BEAUTY: - On Being Small In China -- PROSE -- LINGUA FRANCHISE: - English The Conqueror -- DUMB AS A SACK OF HAMMERS: - A Southern Ontario Childhood -- IDIOM-PROOF: - How To Talk Canadian -- ELOQUENCE LOST: - The Death Of The Topographical Mind -- CAN'T THINK FOR THE RACKET: - Music And Prose -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- BOOKS -- BUTTERFLY INTO MAN: - A Parable About Stories -- THE LIFE QUIXOTIC: - Cervantes And The Invention Of Fiction -- A CIVILIZING INFLUENCE: - Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet -- BURNING MAN: - Pankaj Mishra In The World -- ALL SEX IS REAL: - The Mainstreaming Of Pornography -- THE BONFIRE IS OUT: - Tom Wolfe In Bush's America -- THE DISAPPOINTMENT ARTISTS: - American Fiction In The New Millennium -- EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS EVERYWHERE: - Noah Richler's Literary Atlas Of Canada -- THE PARADOX OF PARADISE: - AdventuresIn Waynejohnstonland -- WHAT WE WANT FROM NOVELS: - In Praise Of ( A Little) Difficulty -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright Page.