The Ecstasy of Influence
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Halls of Fame
by John D'Agata | 
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan | 
Step Across This Line
by Salman Rushdie | 
Table of Contents
by John McPhee | 
Both Flesh and Not
by David Foster Wallace | 
Thick
by Tressie McMillan Cottom | 
Feel Free
by Zadie Smith | 
The Patch
by John McPhee | 
White Girls
by Hilton Als |
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
by Susan Orlean | 
Broken Vessels
by Andre Dubus | 
Giving Good Weight
by John McPhee | 
The Empathy Exams
by Leslie Jamison | 
In Praise of Messy Lives
by Katie Roiphe | 
Silk Parachute
by John McPhee | 
Draft No. 4
by John McPhee | 
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
The Lost Tools of Learning
by Dorothy L. Sayers | 
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
by Italo Calvino |
Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico; from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art's sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee's writing is more than informative; these are stories, artful and full of character, that make compelling reading. They play with and against one another, so that Pieces of the Frame is distinguished as much by its unity as by its variety. Subjects familiar to McPhee's readers--sports, Scotland, conservation--are treated here with intimacy and a sense of the writer at work.