1.   As the three narrators alternate chapters, small threads begin to connect.

2.   After this introduction to the issues, Buckley skillfully alternates chapters devoted to the biographies of Bontecou and McCarthy, until the former writes the latter for a job.

3.   Here he alternates chapters that contain actual information about the Appalachian Trail with very funny chapters about his misadventures in the company of the vulgar but endearing Katz.

4.   John Sandford, pseudonym of John Camp, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, effectively alternates chapters between Rinker and Davenport.

5.   This book reads as if Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, the black actors and activists, talked it, in alternating chapters, paragraphs and sometimes sentences.