League of minor characters --
International House of Pancakes --
Map of the marriage bed --
How to read this story to your children --
Elisabeth reads poetry --
No, you have the wrong number --
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight --
II. Minor celebrities: Graphology --
Words drift down on Virgil Suarez --
Sarah Chang plays violin --
Pantoum for Jane Goodall --
Edna St. Vincent Millay's husband --
Conversation with a Sensualist --
Lessons in trigonometry --
Colonel Mustard between games --
My father invented the calendar --
My mother's biographies --
Reading Hamilton's biography of Robert Lowell --
Anais Nin on the sales table --
Miss Marianne Moore takes a tango lesson --
Two dreams of infinity --