Chapter One: Alpine, Arkansas: God’s Country
Chapter Three: It’s Real Hard to Get Away with Shit
Chapter Four: My Mom and the Gift
Chapter Five: Don’t Ever Call Him Daddy
Chapter Six: Uncle Don and Them
Chapter Seven: Testifying Turkey Ass and Pawn Shop Prosthetics
Chapter Eight: “Dangerous News in Safe Town”
Chapter Ten: “Saturday Afternoon a Half a Century On”
Chapter Twelve: My Unremarkable College Career
Chapter Thirteen: “The Acid Room”
Chapter Fourteen: Dear Billy Bob
Chapter Fifteen: “Breakin’ Down”
Chapter Sixteen: “Pie in the Sky”
Chapter Seventeen: “An Island of My Own”
Chapter Eighteen: Rewriting Othello: The Othie and Desi Show
Chapter Nineteen: Let’s Don’t Start No Circus
Chapter Twenty: “When I Come Around”
Chapter Twenty-One: “Dead End Drive”
Chapter Twenty-Two: “Was That My Only Ride?”
Chapter Twenty-Three: “Hey Joe Public”
Chapter Twenty-Four: “Never Been Dead in My Life”
Chapter Twenty-Five: “The Walking Extinct”
Chapter Twenty-Six: To Billy Bob, from a Big Fan–Billy Wilder
Chapter Twenty-Seven: October 3, 1988
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Burt Reynolds Prophecy
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Sling Blade
Chapter Thirty-One: You People
Chapter Thirty-Two: Viva la Independence
Chapter Thirty-Three: Black and White
Chapter Thirty-Four: A Singular Vision
Chapter Thirty-Five: Things Are Fucked Up at the North Pole
Chapter Thirty-Six: On the Front Porch: Conversations with Daniel Lanois
Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Simple Plan
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Pushing Tin
Chapter Forty-One: My Term as Mayor of the Sunset Marquis
Chapter Forty-Two: “Game of Shadows”
Chapter Forty-Three: The Ballad of the Alamo
Chapter Forty-Four: “There’s Always Somebody Watchin’”
Chapter Forty-Five: I Don’t Hate Canada
Chapter Forty-Six: My New Year’s Resolution: Try to Calm the Fuck Down
Chapter Forty-Seven: Jayne Mansfield’s Car
Chapter Forty-Eight: High Definition in a Cracker Box