Table of Contents
1.The matter of fiction:The top ten best sellers --The great world and Louis Auchincloss --Calvino's novels --Professor V. Nabokov --French letters: theories of the new novel --The hacks of academe --American plastic: the matter of fiction --2.The matter of fact:Some memories of the glorious bird and a earlier self --Contagious self-love --The four generations of the Adams family --President and Mrs. U.S. Grant --West Point --The art and arts of E. Howard Hunt --What Robert Moses did to New York City --Conglomerates --Political melodramas --The state of the union.