Contents

Wretched Refuse

Nearly Naked Through the Not Exactly Negro Streets at Dawn

White Like Me

I Don’t Know What This Is, but You Owe Me a Story

A Dork’s Progress

Flowers in My Hair

Weird Scenes in the Gold Mine

The Summer of My Discontent

I Was a Teenage Marcel Proust

The Unraveling

Groucho Marxism

The Whole World Is Watching

The Reckoning

Aftermath (or: There’s a Bathroom on the Right)

A Note on Sources

Acknowledgments

Music Credits