Table of Contents
2011 Winter
Celebrity
Introductory
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
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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
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