| | Publisher's Note | p. vii |
| | Federer Both Flesh and Not | p. 5 |
| | The Nature of the Fun | p. 193 |
| | Deciderization 2007-A Special Report | p. 299 |
| | Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young | p. 37 |
| | The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress | p. 73 |
| | Mr. Cogito | p. 121 |
| | Back in New Fire | p. 167 |
| | The Best of the Prose Poem | p. 243 |
| | Borges on the Couch | p. 285 |
| | Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open | p. 127 |
| | The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2 | p. 177 |
| | Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama | p. 209 |
| | Overlooked: Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960 | p. 203 |
| | Twenty-Four Word Notes | p. 261 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 325 |
| | Copyright Acknowledgments | p. 326 |
| | Just Asking | p. 321 |