Donner is dead / Cynthia Kaplan --
Blue Christmas: the tour / John Marchese --
Eight / Amy Krouse Rosenthal --
That's just about enough figgy pudding, actually / Catherine Newman --
Birthdays / Ann Patchett --
The accidental Santa / Joni Rodgers --
Christmas 2001 / Anne Giardini --
The bite before Christmas / Stanley Bing --
Survivor / Louis Bayard --
I'll have Christmas with the works on rye, hold the ham and Jesus / Valerie Frankel --
Christmas in Paris / Mike Albo --
We really must get together this year / Marian Keyes --
The gift of the Magi redux / Binnie Kirshenbaum --
A foreign country / Mitchell Symons --
The Jew who cooked a ham for Christmas / Neal Pollock --
Rum balls / Roger Director --
Buy humbug / Cintra Wilson --
The gift that did not need wrapping / Elizabeth Noble.
