Issue Date: May 1982; Vol 97 No 5
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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COVER: HOW A MAN AGES. Good news and bad news about getting older.

DOCUMENTARY: THE AGING BODY -- by John Tierney -- At thirty, the average American male is not a bad specimen -- stronger and smarter than ever. But, inexorably, with each passing decade, age will take its toll. The process is slow but measurable. Here it is, capacity by capacity, inch by inch, part by part.

PROFILE: THE SHORT AND TALL TALES OF GARRISON KEILLOR by James Traub -- Gently ironic stories are the trademark of this heartland hero, whose radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, attracts some two million fans every Saturday.

IN QUOTES: THE BLUES OF SNOW by Don Shewey -- Listen to this woman. PHOEBE SNOW is still one of the great voices of our time. Whether she's singing or talking, what comes out of her mouth is astonishing. [Full page photo.]

BRIEF ENCOUNTER: JESSICA HARPER -- She grew up in Illinois, looks like an angel, and got her start in Hair. She's played middle- American types (the wife in Pennies from Heaven) and off-the-wall roles in movies like Shock Treatment. Let's just say she's a little normal and a little weird. [NICE Full page photo]

ESSAY: BLACK AND AMERICAN, 1982 by David Bradley -- In a society that sees only black and white, nothing has been more important in shaping the author's destiny than the fact of his race.

FIRST PERSON: THE BATTLE FOR THE DEAD -- by David Hellerstein --- The doctor needs the patient's body for an autopsy; the grieving family wants to honor the dead.

ESQUIRE EYE: MUSICAL MONTANA by Stephen Byers -- In clubs from Kalispell to Bozenian, Big Sky bands play the best of jazz, country rock, and rhythm and blues.

THE SPORTING LIFE BASEBALL PREVIEW: THE TALK, TALK, TALK AROUND THE LEAGUES by Thomas Boswell.
AND NOW FOR THE WINNERS AND LOSERS by Bill James.

THE LITERARY LIFE WHY I LIVE WHERE LIVE by Philip Caputo -- For this foreign-correspondent- turned-novelist, home is the island of Key West, Flonda.

FASHION: TOP DRAWER by Vincent Boucher -- It's the details that count. So to look your best, choose among these intriguing new versions of the basic accessories.

FICTION: MY LIVELIHOOD by Charles Dickinson -- In this lesson in contemporary family economics, our narrator, suddenly unemployed, saddled with the responsibilities of home, wife, and children, discovers that in the absence of the right job, what pays is the right attitude.

MAN AT HIS BEST: Smart Money: Hoarding Cars; Classics: The Trench Coat; The Enlightened Traveler: Exploring with Cousteau; The Seasoned Cook: A Curry Specialist; Special Places: Rugged Western Rides; The Drinking Man: Vodka by Daylight; First-Rate: Tough Two-wheelers; What Every Man Should Know: How to Compliment a Woman.

DEPARTMENTS:
BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE: A Man and His Body.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY: Letters from Readers.
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM by Adam Smith -- End of the Miracle Economy?.
ETHICS: by Laurence Shames -- The Biggest Break.
SPORTS CLINIC by Ardy Friedberg -- The Hundred Days.
AMERICAN BEAT by Bob Greene -- One in 100 Million.
OUTDOORS by Geoffrey Norman -- The Fly-fisher King.
HIGH LIFE by Taki -- The Hustlers of Yesteryear.
BOOKS by James Wolcott -- Opening Scenes.
COVER PHOTOGRAPH by BILL KING.
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