Helen Moore Barthelme -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- First Encounter 1 -- Never Suffer Fools 2 -- A Draftee Searching for a pCool Soundp 3 -- Then Wear the Gold Hat 4 -- Discovery of -- Life with a Literary Genius 6 -- Working in a Vacuum -- The Creation of a Strange Object 8 -- The Writing of -- Contemporary Arts Museum 10 -- CAA and the New 11 -- The Promise of New York 12 -- New York at Last 13 -- Loss and Possibility 14 -- A New Life Begins for Don 15 -- Casting Chrysanthemums on His Grave 16 -- Don Enters My Life Again 17 -- The Final Years and -- Notes -- Index.