“A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Introduction 11
7. “Great Jews in Sports” 18
8. “Remember” 37
9. “101 Ways to Cook Hamburger” 48
10. “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” 64
11. Excerpt from Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells 69
12. “A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease” 75
13. “Hitlertown” 84
14. “Trickle-Down Timeline” 92
15. “Seven Stories about Being Me” 108
16. “Tagore to the Max” 114
17. “Beyond the Border of Love” 122
18. “Interrupted Reading” 141
19. “From Combaria” 154
20. “Rhapsody in Green” 166
21. “Our Day with Jerry Springer” 170
22. “Lips” 177
23. “For the Invisible, Against Thinking” 188
24. “Pagan Baby” 201
25. “Bloodlines” 212
26. Afterword 215