Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments One. Wrong/The Adolescence of an Iconoclast Two. Sturm und Drang/Rimbaud and Sade Three. A Poetics of Dissociability/The Punk Poets of Los Angeles Four. “I’m Yours”/Frank O’Hara, Paul Goodman, and The Tenderness of the Wolves Five. Safe and the Aesthetics of Distance Six. “If There Actually Is Such a Thing as New Narrative . . .” Seven. “Fuck Sexual Conformity”/Anarcho-Homo Radicalism in the 1980s Eight. The George Miles Cycle Nine. JT LeRoy and My Loose Thread/“I Had No Other Choice” Ten. The Automated and the Eerie/Collaborations with Gisèle Vienne Eleven. Dennis Cooper’s Blog Twelve. Reading for Queer Subculture in The Marbled Swarm Thirteen. Asignifying Desire/HTML Novels and Feature Films Afterword. Starting with Friendship Notes Bibliography Index