"Look at the Birdie" evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In "Confido", a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest... read more
Foreward by Sidney Offit vii
Letter from Kurt Vonnehut, Jr., to Walter J. Miller, 1951 3
Confido 7
F U B A R 21
Shout About It From the Rooftops 37
Ed's Key Club 51
Part I 51
Part II 75
A Song for Selma 103
Hall of Mirrors 121
The Nice Little People 139
Hello, Red 151
Little Drops of Water 167
The Petrified Ants 185
I. 185
II. 190
III. 193
Epilogue 201
The Honor of a Newsboy 203
Look at the Birdie 213
The King and Queen of the Universe 221
The Good Explainer 241
Illustrations 253
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