| Part I Advice on Life, Death, and Everything in Between 5 -- Unfair Game 7 -- Arrivederci Melanoma 11 -- A Pocket Guide to Mullets 16 -- Five Mexican Generals Plan 22 -- Bring Him On 25 -- Strange Bedfellows 32 -- I Don't 36 -- Zero to Sixty 41 -- Tennis Anyone? 46 -- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 55 -- Part II My Personal Heroes 61 -- Navigator 63 -- Don Imus Died for Our Sins 67 -- Animal Heroes 72 -- Tangled Up in Bob 80 -- Poly-Ticks 85 -- Two Jacks 90 -- Hero Anagrams 95 -- Ode to Billy Joe 96 -- Back of the Bus 100 -- Lottie's Love 108 -- Part III Advice on Writing 113 -- Killing Me Softly 115 -- Fictional Characters Killed Off by Their Creators 120 -- Talent 124 -- Strange Times to Be a Jew: Notes on Michael Chabon's Latest Novel 129 -- Don't Forget 134 -- A Tribute to Me 142 -- What Would Kinky Read? 149 -- Questions From a British Journalist-1999 153 -- Does Not Compute 159 -- Part IV Advice on Going on a Journey 163 -- Texas for Dummies 165 -- Never Travel with an Adult Child 169 -- How to Deliver the Perfect Air Kiss 179 -- Let Saigons Be Bygones 183 -- Wild Man from Borneo 188 -- Mad Cowboy Disease 193 -- Cliff Hanger 197 -- Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa 202 -- Watch What You Sing 209 -- Part V Advice on Coming Home 215 -- A Little Night Music 217 -- God's Own Cowboys 220 -- Shoshone the Magic Pony 223 -- Hummingbird Man 228 -- How To Handle a Nonstop Talker in a Post-9/11 World 233 -- Social Studies 238 -- Gettin' My Goat 243 -- Change, Pardners 255 -- Coming of Age in Texas 260 -- Romeo and Juliet of Medina 264. |
