Brooklyn Crime Novel by Lethem, Jonathan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents I. Everybody Gets Robbed

1. Quarters, Part 1 2. Nobody Knows 3. No Name White Boys 4. Hockey Warriors 5. C., Part 1 6. Screamer 7. Speaking of the Police 8. Jews in Projects 9. Incompetent Shoplifter of Heavy Metal Magazine 10. Gentrification 11. Working on a Building 12. Smudge, Part 1 13. Mr. Clean’s Windshield & Junkie Stadium, Part 1 14. Lies 15. Mr. Clean’s Windshield & Junkie Stadium, Part 2 16. Silences 17. How Much for the Dog? 18. Brazen Head Wheeze, Part 1 19. The Case Against Brooklyn 20. The Dean Street Boys 21. Deeper into White Childhood 22. The Spoiled Boy 23. Interracial 24. Instrumentalization of Difference 25. They Are Lovers 26. Board Games of Empire 27. First Participations 28. C., Part 2 29. What About Those Girls? 30. The Slipper Carries Mugging Money 31. First Whisper of the Dance

II. The Case Against Boerum

32. Lovecraft Basement, Part 1 33. Quarters, Part 2 34. Everybody’s Stereos and the Cops Don’t Care 35. The Yo-Yo Gang 36. A Word About the Brownstoners 37. If Things the Screamer Screamed Were a Greatest-Hits Album 38. Brazen Head Wheeze, Part 2 39. Doray Tavern 40. Skateboard Hostage 41. Kill You? 42. Boerum Hill 43. The Case Against Boerum 44. The Block Association 45. Awkward Metaphors 46. Who the Parents Are Likely and Unlikely to Meet at Parties 47. The Spoiled Boy Has Got Something Going 48. The Slipper, Meanwhile 49. Guy on Corner of Atlantic and Nevins 50. We 51. We

III. Locked-Out Memories

52. Millionaire 53. Smudge, Part 2 54. Premature Gentrification, Atlantic Avenue and Thereabouts 55. Everybody Knows 56. Queer Enclave 57. Walked In On 58. Milt the Vigilante 59. Communes, Day Care Center, Food Co-op, Etc. 60. Brooklyn House of Detention 61. Conundrum of Absolutes 62. Locked-Out Memories, Part 1 63. Claim and Disclaim 64. The Parents Are Hiding Something, and They Contradict Themselves 65. The Street Is the Real Life 66. Inside the Millionaire’s House 67. Shoplifting as Skill Acquisition 68. C., Part 3 69. A Half Block Behind Them, the Slipper 70. Those Who Cannot Be Helped 71. Having a Nemesis 72. The Funny Muggings 73. Brazen Head Wheeze, Part 3 74. Millionaire’s Son Meets Board Games of Empire 75. Is the House for the Children? 76. Changing of the Guard 77. Ice Cream Truck, Known Con Artist 78. White Kid Who Attracts Cop Attention 79. Being a Nemesis 80. Having a Nemesis, Slight Return 81. Screamer and the Tree 82. Quarters, Part 3 83. Color TV 84. The State of Our Inquiry 85. Everybody Knows About the Subway 86. Looping 87. Between-Car Platform Entry 88. Science Fiction Paperback 89. The Frotteur on the Shuttle 90. Smudge, Part 3 91. Eyes On Dean 92. A Ride in the Millionaire’s Car

IV. The Dance

93. Lovecraft Basement, Part 2 94. Williamsburg Savings Bank 95. Guy Who Stuffs Flyers into His Bag and Says Keep Walking 96. The Dance, Part 1 97. I 98. White Space 99. The Whiteness of the Whiteboy 100. The Dance, Part 2 101. Quarters, Part 4 102. Not Even the Big Denominations 103. A Theory of the Wheeze’s 104. The Wheeze’s Implication 105. Idol and Smaller Friend 106. Hicksville 107. Street Book Vendor 108. Hard-boiled 109. Before and After 110. Sword 111. The Whisper of Undercrime 112. C., Part 4 113. Movie Star 114. Real People 115. Rememberers 116. He’s Holding Court

V. Brooklyn Crime Novel

117. The Big Bus 118. Sparkle Stoop 119. Show Don’t Tell

VI. No Music

120. Together 121. Who’s Writing This Book? 122. C., Part 5 123. Allegory 124. No Music

Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Jonathan Lethem Copyright About the Publisher