From the Book - First edition.
Foreword : "I think I know her" / Ruth Franklin
I. Sudden and unusual things have happened : unpublished and uncollected short fiction
Still life with teapot and students
Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons
It isn't the money I mind
I cannot sing the old songs
French is the mark of a lady
She says the damnedest things
Remembrance of things past
The trouble with my husband
II. I would rather write than do anything else : essays and reviews
Hex me, Daddy, eight to the bar
Notes on an unfashionable novelist
III. When this war is over : early short stories
The sorcerer's apprentice
Murder on Miss Lederer's birthday
IV. Somehow things haven't turned out the way we expected : humor and family
Here I am, washing dishes again
In praise of dinner table silence
Questions I wish I'd never asked
How to enjoy a family quarrel
The pleasures and perils of dining out with children
Out of the mouths of babes
What I want to know is, what do other people cook with?
V. I'd like to see you get out of that sentence : lectures about the craft of writing
About the end of the world
Still life with teapot and students
Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons
It isn't the money I mind
I cannot sing the old songs
French is the mark of a lady
She says the damnedest things
Remembrance of things past
The trouble with my husband
Hex me, daddy, eight to the bar
Notes on an unfashionable novelist
The sorcerer's apprentice
Murder on Miss Lederer's birthday
Here I am, washing dishes again
In praise of dinner table silence
Questions I wish I'd never asked
How to enjoy a family quarrel
The pleasures and perils on dining out with children
Out of the mouths of babes
What I want to know is, what do other people cook with?
About the end of the world
