'The Harper's Essay' is reprinted in this volume alongside personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range widely, each piece wrestles with the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.
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| "A Word About This Book" | |
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| "My Father's Brain" | |
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| "Imperial Bedroom" | |
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| "Why Bother" | |
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| "Lost in the Mail" | |
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| "Erika Imports" | |
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| "Sifting the Ashes" | |
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| "A Reader in Exile" | |
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| "First City" | |
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| "Scavenging" | |
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| "Control Units" | |
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| "Mr. Difficult" | |
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| "Books in Bed" | |
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| "Meet Me in St. Louis" | |
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| "Inauguration Day, January 2001" | |
