Description: Hello Midnight is the best way yet to wile away the wakeful hours when company is scarce and "tried-and-true" cures for insomnia have once again been tried and proven false. Among its many charming diversions are:
-- Pithy reflections on insomnia from thinkers and writers ranging from Job, Rudyard Kipling, and Marcel Proust, to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roger Angell, and Fran Liebowitz
-- Eye-opening facts about famous insomniacs, including Marilyn Monroe's explanation of her relentless wakefulness
-- Inspiring suggestions of things to do when the world's asleep, including counting ex-lovers and composing palindromes
-- 100 topics of regret, remorse, resentment, and recrimination from the age-old question, "What if everything my mother told me is true?" to the information-age favorite, "Who's been reading my e-mail?"
-- A tongue-in-cheek guide to sleeping aids from herbs and pharmaceuticals to sex and Wagner

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