Title:  Overnight to Many Distant Cities Year of publication:  1983 Publisher:  Putman, Penguin Books City:  New York Number of Pages:  174 Cover:  paperback Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:  84-18897 ISBN:  0 14 00.7580 1
	Table of contents They called for more structure ... Visitors Financially, the paper ... (titled Pepperoni in Forty Stories) Affection I put a name in an envelope ... Lightning That guy in the back room ... Captain Blood A woman seated on a plain wooden chair ... Conversations with Goethe Well we all had our Willie & Wade records ... Henrietta and Alexandra Speaking of the human body ... The Sea of Hesitation When he came ... (titled The New Owner in Forty Stories) Terminus The first thing the baby did wrong ... (titled The Baby in Forty Stories) The Mothball Fleet Now that I am older ... Wrack On our street ... (titled Sakrete in Forty Stories) The Palace at Four A. M. I am at the moment ... Overnight to Many Distant Cities
	beginning: They called for more structure, then, so we brought in some big hairy four-by-fours from the back shed and nailed them into place with railroad spikes. This new city, they said, was going to be just jim-dandy, would make architects stutter, would make Chambers of Commerce burst into flame. We would have our own witch doctors, and strange gods aplenty, and site-specific sins, and humuhumunukunukuapuaa in the public fish bowls. We workers listened with our mouths agape. We had never heard anything like it. But we trusted our instincts and our paychecks, so we pressed on, bringing in color-coated steel from the back shed and anodized aluminum from the shed behind that. Oh radiant city! we said to ourselves, how we want you to be built!