Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. ONE
4. For About Five Minutes in the Aughts 3
5. Pills 4
6. The Walk 6
7. Vita 7
8. Museum of Lost Acquaintance 9
9. The City She Was 12
10. Bleeding Heart 15
11. Division 16
12. TWO
13. The Science of Parting 19
14. Beauty Regimen 20
15. The Grand Tour 21
16. Pageant of Scrutiny 22
17. The Skeptic 23
18. In-Between Elegy 24
19. The Endangered You 25
20. Stockholm Syndrome 26
21. Lunatics on My Avenue 27
22. Let Down My Bucket 28
23. Bay Bridge Abstraction 29
24. The If of Omission 30
25. Civilizing Mission 32
26. Smaller, Quieter 34
27. Red Baroness 35
28. THREE
29. Mistakes Were Made 39
30. My Fire and Fever Fussy 40
31. Soft Power 41
32. Ars Amatoria 43
33. The Terms 46
34. Don’t Get Out Much Anymore 47
35. Rival 48
36. My Open Sesame 49
37. Redaction 50
38. Under a Wan Sun 51
39. Malaprops 52
40. Sometimes There’s a Virgin 53
41. These Halting Plaints 54
42. Don’t I Disappear 55
43. My Hegemony 56
44. Anodyne 58
45. To My Book 59
46. Notes 60
47. Acknowledgments 61