Introduction
Blueprints: Invisible man and the great migration to white flight
The price of salt is the city: Patricia Highsmith and the queer frontiers of neoliberalism
Naked lunch, or, the last snapshot of the surrealists
Shock therapy: Atlas shrugged, urban renewal, and the making of the entrepreneurial subject
Fallen corpses and rising cities: The bell jar and the making of the new woman
Conclusion: the siege of Harlem and its commune.