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TABLE OF CONTENTS
55 Abdul and Ebenezer
One man’s life among the cows — Ken Kesey
60 At Home with R. Crumb: Pages from His Private Notebooks
Exclusive drawings from a book of revelations
64 The Barber
A short story full of unsettling conversation — Robert Nye
66 America Doesn’t Hate New York
It hates New Yorkers — Alden Whitman
67 New York Without New Yorkers
Pictures of the city unpeopled — Photographed by Pete Turner
75 The Default-proof Manhattan
How to mix it without federal assistance
76 Folklore from the Fifties
Remember the one about the couple that got stuck together? — Gail Parent
78 The Holy Zoli Empire
On bossing around beautiful women
82 My Animal
First fiction from a gloomy mailman — Sanford Chernoff
84 This Is the Best Way
To Handle a Mugger
Imagine an invisible wire attached below your navel — Terry Dobson and Brooke Miller
90 Where’s the Rest of Ronald Reagan?
Thoughts on the candidate nobody knows — Jules Witcover and Richard M. Cohen
94 God Bless the Child That Reads
Once upon a time there was no TV — Reynolds Price
96 Give the Kid a Bible, for Instance
Some advice from Mary Poppins’ mother — P. L. Travers
97 Leave the Kid Alone
Some more advice to the pushy parent — Stephen Gosnell
98 Dead Ringers
Closing the case on the dead twin doctors — Ron Rosenbaum and Susan Edmiston
104 L. L. Bean Has Your Number, America!
An expedition to the suburban frontier — Harry Crews
107 How To Brew the World’s Greatest Cup of Coffee
Says he — Gordon Lish
108 Hanson’s Humans
Creepy is in the eye of the beholder — Photographed by Jan Michael
116 A Charming Evening with Uri Geller
When he asks you to come again, say no — Dotson Rader
119 Jewels and Gym
Gloriously designed active sportswear. Where to buy it: page 138.
12 Arnold Gingrich — Inside Esquire’s World of Jazz
14 Roger Kahn: Sports — Iconoclasm of the long-distance runner
18 Richard Joseph: Travel Notes — Staying put in Switzerland
24 Timothy Crouse: Washington — Death and taxis in Washington, D.C.
28 Jean Stafford: Books — Two novels about the late great Sixties
34 Sound and Fury
36 Nora Ephron: Media — A dinner that sticks in the craw
38 Backstage with Esquire
40 John Gregory Dunne: The Coast — The king of Beverly Hills real estate
44 Alexander Cockburn: Crime — Some things that go on at the morgue
48 Joseph Wechsberg: Music — The Guarneri arrangement
126 Auberon Waugh: Letter from Europe — Iceland vs. Britain in the cod war
Poetry: pages 16, 26, 46