What's this cat's story? -- Milton Klonsky, my favorite intellectual -- The American novel made me -- The 215,000 word habit: Should I give my life to The Times? -- Remembering Harold Rosenberg -- On being an Anglo -- Anti-Jazz: Unless the implications are faced -- Ask for a white Cadillac -- Black English, or The motherfucker culture -- Making It! -- Norman Mailer, get out of my head! -- Mario Puzo and me -- The one & only million-dollar jewboy caper -- For my brothers and sisters in the failure business -- The Menahem begin image -- Sitting shiva for Henry Miller -- My sister, Joyce Brothers -- Epitaph for a Canadian kike.