Description
1st Trade Hardcover, Penzler Books, 1990
Contents:
Author’s Note
Foreword: The Cricket Beneath the Hammer, by Robert Crais
Introduction: The Lost Secrets of East Atlantis
1: Everything I Know About My Father
2: Valerie, Part One
3: Valerie, Part Two
4: Valerie, Part Three
5: Getting Stiffed
6: The Tyranny of the Weak, and Some Foreshadowing
7: With Bloch and Bormann in Brazil
8: The First of Three Culinary Comments
9: No Offense Intended, but Fuck Xmas
10: The Day I Died
11-20: Harlan Ellison’s Movie, A Complete Screenplay [N.B. The screenplay is not included in this edition.]
21: Fair Weather Friends
22: Troubling Thoughts About Godhood, Part One
23: Bless That Pesky Wabbit
24: Troubling Thoughts About Godhood, Part Two
25: Where Shadow Collides with Reality: A Preamble
26: When I Was a Hired Gun, Part One
27: When I Was a Hired Gun, Part Two
28: A Rare, Kindly Thought
29: 3 Small Pleasures for a More Endurable Existence
30: Varieties of Venue
31: Why I Fantasize About Using an AK-47 on Teenagers
32: In Which the Imp of Delight Tries to Make the World Smile
33: I Go to Bed Angry Every Night, and Wake Up Angrier the Next Morning
34: Ahbhu
35: Death Row, San Quentin, Part One
36: Death Row, San Quentin, Part Two
37: College Days, Part One
38: The Death-Wish of an Golden Idea
39: College Days, Part Two
40: College Days, Part Three
41: The Last of Three Culinary Comments, Gonzo-Style,
42: Out of the Mail Bag
43: Oh, Dear, He’s Not Going to Do Xmas Again, Is He?
44: The Death of My Mother, Serita R. Ellison
45: Enormous Dumb
46: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don’t Look So Terrific Yourself
Appendix
A: Comic of the Absurd All in Color for a Dime
B: Dogging It in the Great American Heartland
C: Darkness Falls on the City of the Angels Los Angeles
D: Lenny Bruce Is Dead
E: Did Your Mother Throw Yours Out?
F: The Song the Sixties Sang
G: The Dingbat Appendix