The death of Fred Astaire : and other essays from a life outside the lines /
Leslie Lawrence.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments; I; The Death of Fred Astaire; Becoming Jennie; King for a Day; Fits and Starts; Karl Will Bring a Picnic; Dogs and Children; II; Andee's Fiftieth and the Way We Live Now; Yard Sale; Always Someone!; Swinging; The Third Hottest Pepper in Honduras; III; On the Mowing; Enough Tupperware; Provincetown Breakfast; My June Wedding; IV; What Can You Do?; Wonderlust: Excursions through an Aesthetic Education; 1. Dancing Outside the Lines; 2. Braking for Beauty; 3. On Course(s); 4. A Want; 5. Plank; 6. Beauty, the Treacherous; 7. Wired for Beauty? 8. A More Modest View of the Power of Teachers9. Me and Georgia O'Keeffe; 10. On Beauty and Justice and Becoming a Horse; 11. The Good, the Bad, and the Pretty/Beautiful/ Wild/Disgusting; 12. Rediscovering the Goldbergs; 13. Crisscrossing; 14. How I Became an English Major; 15. Consider the Float, the Glide, the Slash, Dab, Wring; 16. Traveling in the Dark; 17. Rooms to Dwell In; 18. My Digital Age; 19. Changing Course Course; 20. My Story/Your Story; 21. On Beauty and Dying; 22. With Sam in Wonderland; 23. Like Art, Like Life; At the Donkey Hotel; Selected Bibliography