Johnny Mercer’s lyrics set the highest standards in the American songbook. Collaborating with Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, and Jerome Kern, among many others, he set unforgettable words to some of the most memorable melodies in popular music...

Fourteen previously unpublished stories by the writer of whom our contributor, Tom Carson, had this to say in review of Vonnegut’s previous posthumous volume, Armageddon in Respect: “to this reader, the least of Vonnegut has more value than whatever John Updike or Joan Didion cooked up on whatever they think was the best day of their lives.”