The subject matter of the various stories and essays range widely from material connected to his earlier works such as Naked Lunch, to autobiographical pieces.
"Weight" is marred somewhat by brief autobiographical pieces at the beginning and the end that are not integrated into the story.
The first section of the book is a short autobiographical piece, a rarity from David, who guarded her privacy carefully.
Prior to that incident, the director mentioned the story of the video would be an autobiographical piece.
The first three issues were released in a collection with autobiographical introductory pieces by Debbie and Jim.
"Wunderkind", an autobiographical piece which Bates had much admired, appeared in Story magazine.
Sadly, for it was a lively, largely autobiographical piece, it would never see the light of day.
But he began to work on the important autobiographical piece The Prelude.
That hunger is apparent in the autobiographical pieces here.
He later wrote about his childhood in a short autobiographical piece, "The Civilization Teacher."