Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: The Kishka King of Brooklyn
Rock & Roll radio
Out on the street
Dirty old man
Freedom Rider
In my room
Three dollars and a prayer
The principle of love
Part Two: Slugland
Valley of Fear
Science as a vacation
Tattooed Jew
Wild in the 'Burbs
53rd & 3rd
Life in the Post-Ramones Empire of NYC
My best-kept secrets
Epilogue

About the Author

Donna Gaines is the author of the bestselling book Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Ms., the Village Voice, Salon, Spin, and Newsday and numerous scholarly venues.

Reviews

In A Misfit's Manifesto, Donna Gaines has invented a new genre-the socioautobiography, a book of enormous energy, caring, and wisdom that proves, once again, that the personal is political and that women make history, but not under the conditions that they choose. . . . Rarely has journalism possessed such depth of perspective or has sociology been so much fun to read.
*Princeton University*

A magnetic writer who provides an absorbing study in contrasts, Gaines is a keen observer of the sociology of time, place, and pop musical trends.
*Library Journal*