CONTENTS

By Way of a Preface

PART 1: WEST OF THE WEST

Seattle, 1974

Loitering

Whaling Out West

Catching Out

This Is Living

Documents

PART 2: STRATEGIES AGAINST EXTINCTION

American Newness

Winning

Hell House

One More Paradise

Orphans

PART 3: READING LIFE

Salinger and Sobs

Misreading

Casting Stones

Doo-Wop Down the Road

Any Resemblance to Anyone Living

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg