Table of Contents
Preface xi
1 BOOK OF HABITS 1
CHAPTER ONE Modus Vivendi 3
CHAPTER TWO Popular Alienation 11
CHAPTER THREE Inheriting Nostalgia 18
CHAPTER FOUR Bebop Doo-wop 26
CHAPTER FIVE Dreams of Disaster 36
2 BOOK OF HERESIES 45
CHAPTER SIX Letter to Abigail 47
CHAPTER SEVEN Ordinary Alchemy 56
CHAPTER EIGHT Double Souls 65
CHAPTER NINE Waiting for Change 72
CHAPTER TEN Hymn to Hypatia 82
3 BOOK OF VOYAGES 93
CHAPTER ELEVEN Kansas Valkyrie 95
CHAPTER TWELVE Tempo di Valse 102
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Café Vandal 112
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Doctrine’s Orders 123
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Supreme Futures 133
4 BOOK OF VISIONS 139
CHAPTER SIXTEEN National Endowments 141
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Video Incest 147
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Twisted Fate 156
CHAPTER NINETEEN Bert Lonestone, Left Field 165
CHAPTER TWENTY Mei Kuo 176
Chapter Epigraphs 186
Index 190
