Loitering: new & collected essays

By way of a preface

Part 1: West of the West. Seattle, 1974 ; Loitering ; Whaling out West ; Catching out ; This is living ; Documents

Part 2: Strategies against extinction. American newness ; Winning ; Hell house ; One more paradise ; Orphans

Part 3: Reading life. Salinger and sobs ; Misreading ; Casting stones ; Doo-wop down the road ; Any resemblance to anyone living ; Degrees of gray in Philipsburg.