Table of Contents

2011 Winter

Celebrity

Introductory

• Dancing with the Stars: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

On the Rise

• Catching a Break: c. 1999 / Bombay
• Gossip Girl: c. 1874 / London
• Grub Street: c. 120 / Rome
• Descent From the Clouds: 1927 / Paris
• Might is Right: c. 625 / Arabia
• Charismatic Leader: c. 1916 / Heidelberg
• Making a Reputation: 1759 / Boston
• Dream and Dust: 1968 / Los Angeles
• Wretched Lust of Praise: 1715 / London
• Tom Wolfe on the Golden Boy: 1962 / New York City
• Intimations of Immortality: c. 109 / Rome
• Fan Letter: c. 1360 / Florence
• Great Man Theory: 1849 / Concord
• Rumor Mill: 1792 / London
• You Reap What You Sow: 1970 / Minneapolis
• As False as Common Fame: c. 1680 / Oxfordshire
• On Being Seen: 54 BC / Rome
• Bright Ambition: 1875 / Hartford
• We Few, We Famous Few: 1711 / London
• P.T. Barnum Sets His Stage: 1835: Philadelphia
• Yiyun Li Observes a Likeness: c. 1976 / China
• Different Strokes: c. 31 / Rome

At the Top

• Behind the Lens With David Samuels: 2008 / Los Angeles
• Seating Arrangement: 1709 / London
• Bob Dylan Bows Out: c. 1966 / Woodstock
• Where the Flowers Go: 1880 / Paris
• Celebrity Sighting: 1615 / Spain
• Fall From Grace: c. 1100 / Yemen
• Waiting for the Man: 1968 / Los Angeles
• The Big Names and the Small Men: 1961 / Chicago
• Anonym: 1861 / Amherst
• Keeping Up Appearances: c. 1968 / Los Angeles
• Performance Art: c. 420 / Syria
• Truman Capote Gets the Interview: 1955 / New York City
• Frederick Treves Catches a Falling Star: c. 1885 / London
• Notoriety: c. 1270 / Paris
• Christine de Pisan Writes the Script: c. 1200 BC / Amazonia
• Ages of Man: 1969 / Majorca
• F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Limelight: 1922 / West Egg
• Press Release: c. 2100 BC / Mesopotamia
• Glory: c. 1579 / Aquitaine
• Eternal Grandeur: 1170 / Canterbury
• Je Ne Sais Quoi: 1975 / New York City
• Last Words: 44 BC / Rome
• Saul Bellow on Self-Possession: 1961 / New York City
• Hitting it Big: 1868 / Kansas
• Edmund Wilson Regrets: c. 1950 / New York City
• The Old A-List: c. 1450 / France
• Tough Crowd: 1846 / Copenhagen
• Form and Function: 1998 / Los Angeles
• View From the Top: c. 1045 BC / Fenghao
• The Spur of Noble Minds: c. 1630 / London
• Bow and Bid Adieu: 1819 / London
• James Baldwin on Profiling: 1968 / New York City
• Without Deeds, Without Names: c. 1330 / Kyoto

Out of Sight

• Tom Rachman on the Living Dead: 2010 / Geneva
• William Faulkner Writes His Epitaph: 1949 / Oxford, MS
• Danilo Kiš Sends the Flowers: c. 1923 / Hamburg
• Dead Moon: 1790 / London
• Whispers of Uncertain Origin: 8 / Rome
• Groupie: 1852 / St. Petersburg
• Tabloids: 1838 / London
• Triumph: 63 BC / Rome
• Letter to a Young Fan: c. 1979 / Los Angeles
• Getting Upstaged: 1516 / Ferrara
• White Plume, Black Satin: c. 1880 / Paris
• This is Just to Say: 1981 / Washington, DC
• Lisztomania: 1844 / Paris
• Entourage: c. 432 BC / Athens
• Not an Image, a Feeling: 1942 / Hartford
• The Royal Self: 1823 / London
• Do it Yourself: 2007 / New York City
• Fame Answereth All Things: 1601 / London
• Setting the Record Straight: 1925 / Dorset
• Voted Off the Island: 482 BC / Athens
• The Gigolo of Every Woman’s Dreams: c. 1920 / United States
• Hour of Fame: 1862 / South Carolina
• Eulogy: 1962 / New York City
• Fan Base: c. 30 / Galilee
• High-School Apollo: 1943 / Newark
• Stage Direction: 1814 / Albany
• Animal Magnetism: c. 1795 / Paris
• Notorious: 1897 / Reading
• Deification: 1550 / Florence
• Everlasting Renown: c. 522 BC / Delos
• Waiting Game: 1968 / New York City
• Aging Monument: 1818 / London
• Fading Star: 1950 / Beverly Hills

Departments

Essays

• A Public Man: by Andrew McConnell Stott
• Gilgamesh to Gaga: by John Tresch
• Vanishing Act: by Paul Collins
• Consumer Products: by Stephen Marche

Conversations

• Charles Dickens & John Lennon: Paparazzi
• Arrian & Matt Damon: An Air of Mystery
• Suetonius & Nikki Sixx: Having it All, and Then Some
• Christopher Marlowe & Roland Barthes: About Face

Biography

• Against Appearances: by Bruce Bawer

Reconsiderations

• Hatching Monsters: by Charles Baxter

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