The KGB Bar Non-Fiction Reader Book

	Introduction
	A death in Texas	3
	You are cordially invited to my funeral	17
	In the land of the Fischer king	23
	Shadows of a room	47
	The single-mom murder - February 4, 2002	57
	My cocaine museum	77
	Up the river	91
	Traintime	99
	Yodeling : velvet throats and leather paints from German proto-hippies to Jugend SS	137
	Rebel music	143
	Willem de Kooning 1804-1997	157
	From Will you miss me when I'm gone?	161
	Atlantic records : the introduction	173
	Jazz and boxing	189
	Letters from Anne Bourbon-Levinsky to Sophie Bourbon	191
	Weird science	197
	From The dream life : movies, media, and the mythology of the sixties	207
	Braving the heat	221
	"God bless Paddy Brown," we cried as we tossed his ashes into the air	225
	Karaoke nation - or how I spent a year in search of glamour, fulfillment, and a million dollars	229
	Karmandu	241
	Fun, fun, fun	249
	The unknown soldier	253
	Talking dot.com inferno blues	257
	The battle for New York	267
	On the waterfront	279
	Dark matters	299
	The nudie cuties (1950-1969)	307
	Youth vote	327
	Riff on Rio	351
	The Rubaiyat of Alfred J. Prufrock, MBA	355
	Dust radio	359
	A view from the bridge	369
	Caught up in the mix : some adventures in Marxism	377
	From RFK : a memoir	395