CONTENTS -- Preface -- Stairway to Heaven -- I -- "Fair Creatures of an Hour" -- At the Grave of Harold Goldstein -- Twist and Shout -- The Afterlife -- Dear Derrida -- The Fugawi -- The Crab Nebula -- The Ghost of Henry James -- Meetings with Remarkable Men -- Van Diemen's Land -- Strip Poker -- The House on Boulevard St -- II -- Heat Lightning -- Roman Polanski's Cookies -- My Dead Dad -- On My Mother's Blindness -- The Search for Baby Combover -- The Elephant of the Sea -- A Fine Frenzy -- Seventeen Ways from Tuesday -- The Exorcist of Notre-Dame -- The Desperate Hours -- The Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart -- Americans in Italy -- The Laughter of Pigs -- The Beauty Trap -- The Hand of Fatima -- The Winter Dance Party -- III -- For Men Only -- The House of Blue Light -- Listening to John Crowe Ransom Read His Poetry -- I Think Satan Done It -- I Think Stan Done It -- Occupation: Hero -- Everything You Do Is Wrong -- My Brother the Jew -- Teacher of the Year -- Dead Girl Takes Packet Boat to Provincetown -- Calling Robert Bly -- Borges at the Northside Rotary -- Notes.