Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Personal Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Self-Portrait in Twenty-Three Rounds -- Losing the Form in Darkness -- In the Shadow of the American Dream -- Soon All This Will Be Picturesque Ruins -- Being Queer in America -- A Journal of Disintegration -- Living Close to the Knives -- Postcards from America -- X Rays from Hell -- The Seven Deadly Sins Fact Sheet -- Additional Statistics and Facts -- Do Not Doubt the Dangerousness of the 12-inch-tall Politician -- Author Note -- The Suicide of a Guy who Once Built an Elaborate Shrine over a Mouse Hole -- Postscript.