In his continuing series of chance encounter essays, Robert Day reminisces about his years long friendship with John Barth, their regular Friday lunches and the jokes they told each other. Barth once described Day in an essay as "a writer-friend from Kansas who knows about water-wells informs me of the important distinction between dry wells and gurglers." These meetings eventuated into a trio of books by Barth: The Friday Book, Further Fridays, and Final Fridays.