Title:  Amateurs Printing:  First Year of publication:  1976 Publisher:  Pocket Books City:  New York Number of Pages:  207 Cover:  paperback ISBN:  0-671-81246-7
	Table of contents Our Work And Why We Do It The Wound 110 West Sixty-first Street Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby The School The Great Hug I Bought A Little City The Agreement The Sergeant What To Do Next The Captured Woman And Then Porcupines At The University The Educational Experience The Discovery Rebecca The Reference The New Member You Are As Brave As Vincent Van Gogh At The End Of The Mechanical Age
	beginning: As admirable volume after admirable volume tumbled from the sweating presses... The pressmen wiped their black hands on their pants and adjusted the web, giving it just a little more impression on teh right side, where little specks of white had started to appear in the crisp, carefully justisfied black prose. I picked up the hammer and said into the telephone, "Well, if he comes around here he's going to get a face full of hammer. "A four-pound hammer can mess up a boy's face pretty bad "A four-pound hammer can make a bloody rubbish of a boy's face." I hung up and went into the ink room to see if we had enough ink for the rest of the night's runs.