Other colors : essays and a story / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

Includes index.

The implied author -- My father -- Notes on April 19, 1994 -- Spring afternoons -- Dead tired in the evening -- Out of bed, in the silence of night -- When the furniture is talking, how can you sleep? -- Giving up smoking -- Seagull in the rain -- A seagull lies dying on the shore -- To be happy -- My wristwatches -- I'm not going to school -- Rüya and us -- When Rüya is sad -- The view -- What I know about dogs -- A note on poetic justice -- After the storm -- In this place long ago -- The house of the man who has no one -- Barbers -- Fires and ruins -- Frankfurter -- Bosphorus ferries -- The islands -- Earthquake -- Earthquake angst in Istanbul -- How I got rid of some of my books -- On reading: words or images -- The pleasures of reading -- Nine notes on book covers -- To read or not to read : the thousand and one nights -- Foreword to Tristram Shandy: everyone should have an uncle like this -- Victor Hugo's passion for greatness -- Dostoyevsky's Notes from underground : the joys of degradation -- Dostoyevsky's fearsome demons -- The brothers Karamazov -- Cruelty, beauty, and time : on Nabokov's Ada and Lolita -- Albert Camus -- Reading Thomas Bernhard at a time of unhappiness -- The world of Thomas Bernhard's novels -- Mario Vargas Llosa and third world literature -- Salman Rushdie : The satanic verses and the freedom of the writer -- PEN Arthur Miller speech -- No entry -- Where is Europe? -- A guide to being Mediterranean -- My first passport and other European journeys -- André Gide -- Family meals and politics on religious holidays -- The anger of the damned -- Traffic and religion -- In Kars and Frankfurt -- On trial -- Who do you write for? -- The white castle afterword -- The black book : ten years on -- A selection from interviews on The new life -- A selection from interviews on My name is Red -- On My name is Red-- From the snow in Kars notebooks -- irin's surprise -- In the forest and as old as the world -- Murders by unknown assailants and detective novels -- Entr'acte; or, Ah, Cleopatra! -- Why didn't I become an architect? -- Selimiye Mosque -- Bellini and the East -- Black pen -- Meaning -- My first encounters with Americans -- Views from the capital of the world -- The Paris Review interview -- To look out the window -- My father's suitcase.