Is There God after Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Praisesongs and Descants -- Overture: Talk, Talk -- Part I: Sounds -- Is There God after Prince? -- The Last Psychedelic Band -- Karaoke for the People -- The Everyday Disaster -- What We Fight about When We Fight about Doctor Wu -- Part II: Ceremonies -- Love in the Ruins -- Circumstance -- Joy Rounds First -- Loving John -- The Impostor -- Part III: Kids -- Easy -- Our Noise -- Where I Want to Be -- Ghost Stories -- Rhapsody for the Crash Years -- Part IV: Sentences -- So-Called Normal People -- Say Chi City -- Our Man in the Fifteenth -- Hollow -- Killing Joke -- Part V: Ends -- My Thoughts Are Murder -- Mercy Hours -- In the Maze -- Anthony and Carmela Get Vaccinated -- Afterword: Exit Wounds -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.