Many of these essays are revised versions of pieces that appeared earlier many in the Chronicle of higher education. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Storytelling
The Classroom and Its Pitfalls
-The Paper Shredder
-Kneecapped in the Art Museum
-The Beast in the Champaign Jungle
-Fear and Trembling in the English Novel
-Satire a la Sartre
-The Hazards of Humor
Research Capers
-The Two Cultures and Dr. Franklin's Fly
-Seduced by Scholarship
-The Shorthand Man
-Memoirs of a Library Collector
Professional Business
-The University of ______ Requests the Honor of Your Presence
-Academic Conventions
-The Ph.D. and the IRS: Innocence and Experience
-Ingenuity and the Grant Application
After Hours Amusements
-Party Time in Academe
-Rum Running in Kansas
-Revenge of the Kanji
Travelers' Tales
-Wheeling and Dealing at the Luxembourg Airport
-My Italian Fiaasco: Arrivederci, Trezzo
-The V Sign and Other Old-World Driving Hazards
-Peril on the Sea
An Alien in London
-Sabbatical Projects: Learning the Language and Reading the Natives
-Alien Registration and Other Formalities
-Sixteen Minutes to the British Museum
Endote
-September Song
