TY - BOOK AU - Franzen,Jonathan TI - How to be alone: essays SN - 9780312422165 (pbk.) : AV - PS3556.R352 H69 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Picador KW - Essays. N1 - Rev. and expanded; My father's brain -- Imperial bedroom -- Why bother? -- Lost in the mail -- Erika imports -- Sifting the ashes -- Reader in exile -- First city -- Scavenging -- Control units -- Mr. Difficult -- Books in bed -- Meet me in St. Louis -- Inauguration day, January, 2001 N2 - From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections," a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of the sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics ER -