Notes of a Nervous Man
This collection of columns by a former writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press , now with the Newhouse News Service in Washington, D.C., consists mainly of humor pieces, although a few are serious and a couple (about Halloween and autumn) border on the elegiac. The first section, "Domestic Life," deals with the multiple traumas of a novice home owner. "The Public World," offers observations on adult education, air fresheners, mayhem in the movies and audience members who comment on it to their companions. "Private Life" discusses incipient baldness and buying a moped. "Journalism" contains pieces on the Minnesota State Fair and, most memorably, New York City--not Lileks' favorite spot on earth by a long shot. The tone is amiable and civilized throughout.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.