The City She Was

CONTENTS

For About Five Minutes in the Aughts Pills The Walk Vita Museum of Lost Acquaintance The City She Was Bleeding Heart Division CONTENTS 3 4 6 7 9 12 15 16 One The Science of Parting Beauty Regimen The Grand Tour Pageant of Scrutiny The Skeptic In-Between Elegy The Endangered You Stockholm Syndrome Lunatics on My Avenue Let Down My Bucket Bay Bridge Abstraction The If of Omission Civilizing Mission Smaller, Quieter Red Baroness 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 32 34 35 Two Mistakes Were Made My Fire and Fever Fussy Soft Power Ars Amatoria The Terms Don’t Get Out Much Anymore Rival My Open Sesame Redaction Under a Wan Sun Malaprops Sometimes There’s a Virgin These Halting Plaints Don’t I Disappear My Hegemony Anodyne To My Book Notes Acknowledgments 39 40 41 43 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 58 59 60 61 Three ...