101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells (2002) (edit title/settings)

Circle 1 / The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions (New Items in the Devil's Workshop)
1. Tim Carvell / A Damnation, Directed Toward Telemarketers
2. Michael Francis Martone / Food for Naught
3. Matt Summers / In Response to Your Mass E-mail Solicitation
4. Andrei Codrescu / Adding Memory
5. Kevin Shay / The Thumb-and-Pinky Pretend-Telephone Gesture
6. Paul Tullis / Operating Instructions
7. Laurie Rosenwald / She Knew You Had Your Own Finger, or, I Remember Ma Bell
8. Jon Scieszka / Those Damn Blow-ins
9. Merrill Markoe / Cell-Phone Etiquette
10. Sue Kolinsky / SOBs in Their SUVs
11. David Colman / In the Tuscan Oven
12. Bob Smith / Blood, Sweat, and Tears
13. Tim Harrod / On Porn E-mails, Reality TV, Tailgaters. . .

Circle 2 / Speaking of the Devil (Speech That Deserves a Tongue-Lashing)
14. Lise Funderburg / Abuse of Grammar Exhibit 23A-C
15. Henry Alford / Angloism
16. Ron Carlson / Nite
17. Evan Morris / A Taste of Honey
18. Marc Jaffe / Niceness
19. Kuirt Andersen / Feigned Praise
20. Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely / A Movie Trailer We'd Like to See
21. David Bouchier / Mission Impossible
22. Andy Borowitz / And All That Good Stuff
23. Jason Ross / The Undead Language
24. Sandra Tsing Loh / Say No to Funny E-mails

Circle 3 / Infernal Affairs (On Hell's Belles and Other Damnable Sorts)
25. Martha Keavney / TV and Movie Aliens Who Are Attracted to Human Females
26. Candyce Barnes / Crime and Punishment: Damnation!
27. Davis Sweet / The Damnation of People Knowing Me
28. Louise Rafkin / The Female Handshake: Firm, Flaccid, or Fit for a Queen
29. Celia Rivenbark / Revenge of the Amish Friendship Bread
30. Judy Gruen / Not in My Face, If You Please
31. Mark O'Donnell / On Being the Sole Representative of One's Gender in a Hostile Room: A Random Example of a Perennial Dilemma
32. Beth Sherman / Public Mastication
33. Francis Heaney / In Which It Is Shown That Crime Is Bad, and That Stupid People Should Perhaps Not Be Allowed to Get as Drunk as Smart People
34. Kris Frieswick / The Saunterers
35. Cynthia Heimel / do NOT, Especially If You Value Your Ass, Tell Me to Smile

Circle 4 / It's Not the Heat, It's the Humi- No, Come to Think of It, It IS the Heat (Seasonal Misery, Year-Round)
36. Cynthia Kaplan / A Short History of My Dread
37. Bruce McCall / Golf Spelled Backwards Is Flog
38. Randy Cohen / Strike Three: You're Bored!
39. Tim Ruprecht / February Is Twenty-Eight (Or Twenty-Nine) Day's Too Long
40. Barry Blitt / The Dog Days of Spring
41. Evan Morris / That Which Does Not Kill Me Grows Back in a Week and Tries Again
42. Susan McCarthy / Those Flags
43. Christopher Buckley / Leaf Blowers
44. Brett Leveridge / See You in September
45. Laura Pedersen / New York City State of Mind: A Weekend Near the Expressway
46. Rod Lott / There's Gonna Be an Earthquake
47. Roy Blount, Jr. / Real Beach

Circle 5 / Our Bodies, Our Hells
48. Kevin Guilfoile / On Allergies
49. Andrew Marlatt / My Left Hair
50. Jay Rutetnberg / Olives
51. Nell Scovell / On What'shername - You Know, the Actress
52. Amy Kroiuse Rosenthal / To Be Continued. . .
53. Lewis Grossberger / Antibody
54. J.H.S. McGregor / Fine Point
55. Tony Hendra / Salty Talk
56. Dan Bova / Standing Bull
57. David Ives / Night of the Living Near-Dead

Circle 6 / Hell Hath No Fury Like a Bored Child (Playing With matches and Other Youthful Pursuits)
58. Louise Bayard / Treble Yell
59. Patricia Wynn Brown / Rules for Reentry. . . Into the Foreign Galaxy of Our Home
60. Frank Gannon / David Blaine and His Big Goddamn Ice Cube
61. Calvin Trillin / The Young and the Debtless
62. Patricia Marx / On Returning Home and Being Greeted by Your Mother
63. Ben Greenman / Circus
64. Toby Miller / All I Needed to Know About, Well, Gym, I Learned in Gym
65. Saint Reverend Jen Miller / The Great Sea-Monkey Conspiracy
66. Daniel Radosh / Web Sites of the Damned

Circle 7 / Out of the Frying Pan (Hellish Situations)
67. Jo Bob Briggs / Fresh Pepper?
68. Michael Martone / Tables Turning
69. Stan Mack / Signalling for the Check
70. Jim Mullen / Why I'm Not a Spy
71. Jonathan Ames / Pennies from Hell
72. Dan Coffey / Karaoke Katharsis
73. Beth Teitell / The Bitter Aftertaste of Office Goodies
74. Gregory Hischak / When I Die, I'm Going to Heaven Because I've Spent My Time in the Apartment Next-door to Hell
75. Craig Bierko / I Hate Change
76. Marta Segal Block / Temporary Hells
77. Mark Bazer / Better Off Renting
78. David Macfarlane / The Lost World of the Waiting Room

Circle 8 / Devil in a Blue Dress (Also Available in Toast, Smoke, Ash, and Sulpher) (The Wretched Excesses)
79. Chris Harris / "Special Editions" of Monopoly
80. Alysia Gray Painter / A Purgatory of Postcards
81. Bonnie Thomas Abbott / Bonnie! The Magazine
82. Ariel S. Leve / What Where They Thinking?
83. Renee A. James / Name and Address, Please
84-88 Shirley Chickenpants / Much Too Much of Such and Such
Vee Ringo / I Smell Coconuts
Kim Kenny / Red, White, and Sky
Betsy Kelso / Purin and Puppies and Pussies, Oh My!
Kate Ward / Cigarette Whore
Stacy Chbosky / Miles and Milse of Vertical Smiles
89. Shephen Sherrill / Executive Decision

Circle 9 / The Devil Made Me Do It (For God and Country)
90. David Bouchier / Eternal Revenue
91. Robert S. Wieder / Jack-O'-Lanterns and Other Empty-Headed Phenomena
92. Will Durst / Halloween Versus Election Day
93. Louis Phillips / The Bullet Bible
94. Neil Genzlinger / The Law, the Ass
95. Chip Rowe / Don't Blame Me
96. Clyde Edgerton / Plastic
97. Paul Krassner / Marketing Rebellion
98. David Martin / A Lesson in Bureaucracy
99. Rich Cohen / A Coney Island of the Sole
100. M. Sweeney Lawless / That Darned Satan
101. Michael Feldman / Bad Jew

Appendix
Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwartz / Thirty Thigns I HATE About Hell
A Special Offer for our readers from Matt Neuman / see back flap and page 335 for details

Acknowledgments