The opposite of loneliness: essays and stories

Introduction / by Anne Fadiman --

Opposite of loneliness --

Fiction: Cold pastoral ; Winter break ; Reading aloud ; Ingenue ; Emerald City ; Baggage claim ; Hail, full of grace ; Sclerotherapy ; Challenger deep --

Nonfiction: Stability in motion ; Why we care about whales ; Against the grain ; Putting the "fun" back in eschatology ; I kill for money ; Even artichokes have doubts ; Art of observation ; Song for the special.