The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. Book

i: My Plan to Begin With
My Plan to Begin With, Part One The Used Bookshop Stories The Books They Read Going Under in Wendover Zelig of Notoriety Clerk
 
ii: Dick, Calvino, Ballard: SF and Postmodernism
My Plan to Begin With, Part Two Holidays Crazy Friend (Philip K. Dick)
What I Learned at the Science-Fiction Convention The Best of Calvino: Against Completism Postmodernism as Liberty Valance The Claim of Time (J. G. Ballard)
Give Up
 
iii: Plagiarisms
The Ecstasy of Influence The Afterlife of “Ecstasy”/Somatics of Influence Always Crashing in the Same Car Against “Pop” Culture Furniture
 
iv: Film and Comics
Supermen!: An Introduction Top-Five Depressed Superheroes The Epiphany Izations Everything Is Broken (Art of Darkness)
Godfather IV Great Death Scene (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
Kovacs’s Gift Marlon Brando Breaks Missed Opportunities Donald Sutherland’s Buttocks The Drew Barrymore Stories
 
v: Wall Art
The Collector (Fred Tomaselli)
An Almost Perfect Day (Letter to Bonn)
The Billboard Men (Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel)
Todd James Writing and the Neighbor Arts Live Nude Models On a Photograph of My Father Hazel
 
vi: 9/11 and Book Tour
Nine Failures of the Imagination Further Reports in a Dead Language To My Italian Friends My Egyptian Cousin Cell Phones Proximity People Repeating Myself Bowels of Compassion Stops Advertisements for Norman Mailer White Elephant and Termite Postures in the Life of the Twenty-first-Century Novelist
 
vii: Dylan, Brown, and Others
The Genius of James Brown People Who Died The Fly in the Ointment Dancing About Architecture Dylan Interview Open Letter to Stacy (The Go-Betweens)
Otis Redding’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Rick James an orchestra of light that was electric
 
viii: Working the Room
Bolaño’s 2666
Homely Doom Vibe (Paula Fox)
Ambivalent Usurpations (Thomas Berger)
Rushmore Versus Abundance Outcastle (Shirley Jackson)
Thursday (G. K. Chesterton)
My Disappointment Critic/On Bad Faith The American Vicarious (Nathanael West)
 
ix: The Mad Brooklynite
Ruckus Flatbush Crunch Rolls Children with Hangovers L. J. Davis Agee’s Brooklyn Breakfast at Brelreck’s The Mad Brooklynite
 
x: What Remains of My Plan
Micropsia Zeppelin Parable What Remains of My Plan Memorial Things to Remember