New York : Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1974]
Physical Details
xxvii, 285 pages ; 22 cm
ISBNs
0440087171, 9780440087175
OCLC
ocm00799732, ocm00799732
Essays.
Science fiction -- Brief encounters on the Inland Waterway -- Hello, Star Vega -- Teaching the unteachable -- Yes, we have no nirvanas -- Fortitude -- There's a maniac loose out there -- Excelsior! We're going to the Moon! Excelsior -- Address to the American Physical Society -- Good missiles, good manners, good night -- Why they read Hesse -- Oversexed in Indianapolis -- The mysterious Madame Blavatsky -- Biafra: a people betrayed -- Address to graduating class at Bennington College, 1970 -- Torture and blubber -- Address to the National Institute of Arts and Letters -- Reflections on my own death -- In a manner that must shame God Himself -- Thinking unthinkable, speaking unspeakable -- Address at rededication of Wheaton College Library, 1973 -- Invite Rita Rait to America -- Address to P.E.N. Conference in Stockholm, 1973 -- A political disease -- Playboy interview