ABSTRACT
The essays collected in this book are about everything under the sun—rock music, improving your sex, the Hollywood life, the uses of poetry, Marshall McLuhan, violence in Mississippi, group-grope theater, student revolts at home and abroad. . . . And there isn’t a unified tone and manner. Now the writer looks detached or even invisible; now he steps onstage and mugs a little; one minute he’s in slippers in a study with fire and wine and cat (a relaxing ramble), and the next he’s pressing an idea, selling something, obviously out to convince.
