Terrific Titles

Some of us are aficionados of great titles. Here are a few of the terrific titles or subtitles we've run across lately in our collection:

• Never Coming to a Theater Near You: a celebration of a certain kind of movie / Kenneth Turan
• What matters most is how well you walk through the fire / Charles Bukowski
• What you think of me is none of my business / by Terry Cole-Whittaker
• Bird by bird : instructions on writing and life / Anne Lamott
• When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 / Ramón A. Gutiérrez
• You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again / Julia Phillips
• 30 Days in Sydney, a Wildly Distorted Account / Peter Carey
• Poet of the appetites : the lives and loves of M.F.K. Fisher / Joan Reardon
• We'll always have parrots / Donna Andrews
• Shakespeare is hard, but so is life : a radical guide to Shakespearian tragedy / Fintan O'Toole
• The secret knowledge of water : discovering the essence of the American desert / Craig Childs

       Do we mean to be recommending these books? Not necessarily. It's the title as a short composition form in itself which we are appreciating. But we know Bird by Bird and The Secret Knowledge of Water to be as good as their titles. And Bukowski is always Bukowski.