Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part I The Voice of the Door-keeper 1
Chapter 1 Out of the Frying Pan 3
Chapter 2 And into the Fire 16
Chapter 3 In the Doghouse 39
Chapter 4 The Hole 60
Chapter 5 Weekend Reading 78
Chapter 6 Pomp and Circumstance 96
Chapter 7 Three Strikes, You're Out 115
Part II We're All Mad Here 135
Chapter 8 New Sheriff in Town 137
Chapter 9 Finder's Keepers 146
Chapter 10 Bat out of Hell 158
Chapter 11 Heartbreaker 176
Chapter 12 Because I Could Not Stop for Death 190
Chapter 13 Something Wicked This Way Comes 202
Chapter 14 Gangsta's Paradise 210
Chapter 15 Deck the Halls with Boughs of Folly 219
Part III The Same Little Corner of Sky 233
Chapter 16 Ghost in the Machine 235
Chapter 17 I, Too, Sing America 245
Chapter 18 Erin Go Bragh 255
Chapter 19 Last Dance with Mary Jane 265
Chapter 20 Them's the Breaks, Kid 275
Chapter 21 The Spider and the Fly 285
Chapter 22 Check Mate 294
Chapter 23 Taking the Matter into Your Own Hands 305
Chapter 24 Ink Art Serrated 319
Epilogue 334
Acknowledgments 341