Alan Cooper is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York. He chaired the English Department for 20 years and now serves as the college's faculty leader.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Ironic and the Irate
2. Starting Out
3. Biography versus the Biographical
4. Duty before Rage
5. The Alex Perplex
6. Absurdities: Post-Portnoy Seventies
7. The Most Offensive Piece Roth Ever Wrote
8. Watershed
9. Zuckerman Bound
10. Zuckerroth
11. Operation Shylock
12. Master Baiter: Sabbath's Theater
13. Irony Board
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index