Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION ix
4. L'AprGs-midi de Mary Garden 1
5. Edmund Wilson at Oxford 12
6. Playing Chess with Arthur Koestler 23
7. Alva Myrdal 35
8. Meeting Matisse 42
9. My Summer with Sinclair Lewis 47
10. Charles Olson and an American Place 59
11. Alan Jay Lerner: Words and Music 70
12. Mr. Randolph 75
13. Seeking Out Christina Stead 84
14. Jean Renoir 92
15. Three Passions of Paul Hindemith 99
16. Notes after Austin 116
17. An Exemplary Edmund Wilson 124
18. Courier for Jacques Lacan 133
19. Remembering Auden 140
20. Maugham 150
21. Le Patron, Jean Piaget 160