Waiting for the sky to fall : the age of verticality in American narrative / Ruth Mackay.

"Down Down Down He Shot": Winsor Mccay's work, vertical collapse, and time in the modernist city
Upton Sinclair's Vertical infernos: oil procurement and disaster culture
"The horizon was an illusion": flight, escape, and imagining vertical space in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
Terror/power: Allen Ginsberg's nuclear poetics and the space race
Traversing vertical space: Philippe Petit's wire-walk, danger, and transformation
Coda: Up and down stories.