Table of Contents:

Table of Contents: “…-- The art and practice of fiction -- New Yorkers' concepts of literary criticism -- Forces at work in New York criticism -- Local problems of New York criticism -- Conclusion…”

Table of Contents: “…-- Comics and the American language -- Fantasy and reality in Winsor McCay's Little Nemo -- Krazy kat as American Dada art -- Charlie Chaplin and the comics -- Sut Lovingood and Snuffy Smith -- Faulkner reads the funny papers -- Peanuts and American culture -- The New Yorker cartoon and graphic humor -- The EC comic books and science fiction -- American industrial culture and the comic book.…”

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: a New Yorker comes home -- The Knickerbocker set -- Lewis Gaylord Clark's table -- Knickerbocker Whiggery -- John Waters -- Harry Franco -- Chowder -- Young America -- The Tetractys Club -- A protective tariff for native genius -- A pattern of alliances -- Maelstrom in the microcosm -- The literary prospects of 1845 -- Big Abel and the little Manhattan -- The timeliness of Toby -- Tom Pepper -- Literary worlds -- Rear-guard action -- A greater than Shakespeare? …”

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- To the eighth day/ Thornton Wilder -- To the golden west: Hollywood Stories/ Daniel Fuchs -- To Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems -- To elephant house, or, the home of Edward Gorey/ Kevin McDermott -- To Christmas at the New Yorker: stories, poems, humor, and art -- To the German catalogue of an exhibit of photographs by Ulrich Mack of the Ipswich marshes -- Monuments -- The great I am -- Big dead white male -- Down the river -- Oz Is us -- Hide and seek -- Thurber and White -- Introduction to the perennial edition of Is sex necessary? …”

Table of Contents: “…IRISH LITERATURE : Anglo-Irishry -- The Literature of Resistance -- A Colder Eye -- The Quaking Bog -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The Apprentice Mage -- Beauty and the Bard -- The Heritage of Yeats -- Yeats, Joyce, and the Matter of Ireland -- James Joyce and the Imagination of Irish History -- Dubliners -- Sean O'Casey -- Frank O'Connor -- Conscience of Kilkenny -- A Ghost of the Old New Yorker -- Brian Moore -- Seamus Heaney -- Family Secrets. 339…”