Now: Fall fashion report from a local correctional facility / Henry Alford
This old bod / Roger Angell
Salute to John Wayne / Roy Blount, Jr.
Theatre-lobby notices / Andy Borowitz
I loved the garish days / Lynn Caraganis
Gimme no static / Rich Cohen
Hepatitis F / Prudence Crowther
Life without Leann / Larry Doyle
Magical grasp of antiques / Glenn Eichler
What the twister did / Bill Franzen
Lamentations of the father / Ian Frazier
Let's hear it for a beautiful day / Bruce Jay Friedman
Plan 10 from Zone R-3 / Polly Frost
What he told me / Frank Gannon
Cosa Noshtra / Veronica Geng
What I'd say to the Martians / Jack Handey
Fragging / Larry Heinemann
Around the Horne / Garrison Keillor
Evidently, it was live then / Dan Kennedy
from Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet
Third millennium: so far, so good / Steve Martin
Getting along with the Russians / Patricia Marx
La Bamba hot line / Bobbie Ann Mason
Fair warning / Ian Maxtone-Graham
Hitler's secret diary / Bruce McCall
Miracle of the fish plate / Patrick F. McManus
Royal visitor / George Meyer
There shall be no bottom (a bad play for worse actors) / Mark O'Donnell
Naturalist's notes / David Owen
Six days: some rememberings / Grace Paley
I don't talk service no more / Charles Portis
Scarliotti and the sinkhole / Padgett Powell
Save our bus herds! / Cathleen Schine
Plague of tics / David Sedaris
Wrong Shapiro at the right time / Susan Shapiro
My married life: the whole truth thus far / Mark Singer
How important moments in my life would have been different if I was shot twice in the stomach at close range / Jake Swearingen
Curtain time / Calvin Trillin
I embrace the new candor / George W.S. Trow
Mild "complaint" / John Updike.
Some great old stuff: Muck-a-muck: a modern Indian novel after Cooper (1867) / Bret Harte
Anegdotes from the life of Pushkin (1930s) / Daniil Kharms
History in the balance (1958) / Calvin Tomkins
Bathhouse (1961) / Mikhail Zoshchenko
How to write good (19710 / Michael O'Donoghue
Thailand (1970s) / Donald Barthelme
Ultimate diary (further jottings of a contemporary composer) (1975) / Howard Moss
12 o'clock news (1979) / Elizabeth Bishop.
