The spirit of giving: More of a surprise / Sally Benson -- Schoolboy / Sally Benson -- Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever -- The Magi hangup / William Cox -- Parental advisory / Daniel Menaker -- Christmas cards / John Updike -- and Talk of the town / Mrs. John Swinton [and others] -- The feast: A fine turkey dinner / Brendan Gill -- Stare decisis / H.L. Mencken -- The turkey season / Alice Munro -- My ex-husband and the fish dinner / Joan Acocella -- Winter in Martinique / Patrick Chamoiseau -- and Talk of the Town / Jean P. Helm, William B. Powell, and James Thurber -- K. Kringle, esq.: A visit from Saint Nicholas / James Thurber -- Waiting for Santy: a Christmas playlet / S.J. Perelman -- No Santa Claus / Emily Hahn -- Skid-Row Santa / Ken Kesey -- The twelve terrors of Christmas / John Updike -- and Talk of the town / William Shawn, Francis Steegmuller, and Harold Ross -- Family matters: Christmas poem / John O'Hara -- Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov -- Solace / Linda Grace Hoyer -- A Christmas story / Garrison Keillor -- Créche / Richard Ford -- and Talk of the town / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Holiday spirits: Comments / E.B. White -- Spirit of Christmas / Sally Benson -- Two people he never saw / John McNulty -- Flesh and the devil / Peter De Vries -- The carol sing / John Updike -- and Talk of the town / Carroll Newman [and others] -- O tannenbaum: Homecoming / William Maxwell -- Occurrence on the Six-seventeen / George Shephard -- Tokio Christmas / Max Hill -- A couple of nights before Christmas / J.F. Powers -- and Talk of the town / Russell Maloney [and others] -- Christmas carols: Christmas week / Parke Cummings -- Christmas Eve / Karl J. Shapiro -- A Christmas carol / John Ciardi -- Christmas Eve / John Ciardi -- What every woman knows / Phyllis McGinley -- Christmas family reunion / Peter De Vries -- Landscape of the star / Adrienne Rich -- The passing of Alpheus W. Halliday / E.B. White -- All's Noël that ends noël / Ogden Nash -- Saint Nicholas / Marianne Moore -- The Magus / James Dickey -- The Christmas cactus / L.M. Rosenberg -- Icicles / Robert Pinsky -- Christmas in Qatar / Calvin Trillin -- Tree with ornaments by my mother / Elizabeth Macklin -- 25.xii. 1993 / Joseph Brodsky -- Nativity poem / Joseph Brodsky -- Greetings, Friends! (1939), (1957) / Frank Sullivan -- Greetngs, Friends! (1978) (1995) / Roger Angell -- Drawings.
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