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The author reflects on the accomplishments of and meeting novelist and author Robert Coover. The author mentions that he and Coover respected each other's work and enjoyed their meeting at some literary conference. He cites that Coover thought of becoming an official advisor to the Electronic Literature Organization. The author also mentions Coover's earliest novel "The Origin of the Brunists."

The article presents views of the author about different issues of his country, the U.S. The author feels embarrassed by the current presidential administration when he thinks about his country. His fascination is with telling and listening to stories as they are products of human imagination, this he finds most exciting and inspiring. Tidewater Maryland-the Chesapeake Bay is the place he is particularly drawn towards. His fears and hopes for the world are overpopulation, depletion of non-renewable resources, pollution of natural environment and is hopeful about UNESCO.