Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Part One
4. “Fuck Everything!” 3
5. Slaughterhouse 17
6. A Great Beast 21
7. Folklore Of The Conquest 28
8. Twain 41
9. Just A Brooklyn Boy 57
10. Beginning The Streets Of Sorrow 67
11. The World Of Sex 74
12. Talk 78
13. Entering The Slaughterhouse 84
14. Manhattan Monologist 91
15. Cosmodemonic 95
16. She 99
17. Exile 115
18. Part Two
19. Where The Writers Went 121
20. The Avant-Garde 131
21. Hunger 137
22. June 142
23. An Apache 145
24. Villa Seurat 157
25. What She Gave 174
26. 1934 181
27. Form 186
28. The Grounds Of Great Offense 197
29. A New World 206
30. Coda 215
31. Notes 219
32. Selected Bibliography 227
33. Acknowledgments 231
34. Index 232