Table of Contents:
  • Groundzeroland
  • Literary terrorists: William Wordsworth, The Unabomber, Don DeLillo
  • Solitary savages: Jack Henry Abbott/Norman Mailer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Scorsese, Bret Easton Ellis
  • Crossing the line: Joseph Conrad, John Cassavetes, Thomas Mann, Francis Ford Coppola
  • Rough trade: Jean Genet, Frederick Douglass
  • Deliberate orphans: Herman Melville, J.M. Synge, Thomas Bernhard
  • The last maniacal folly of Heinrich von Kleist (a fiction)
  • Coda.