The book is an assemblage of vignettes about love, beauty, fame, work, sex, time, death, economics, success, and art, among other topics, by the "Prince of Pop".

In October 2019, an audio tape of publicly unknown music by Lou Reed, based on the book, was reported to have been discovered in an archive at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

[9][2] Barbara Goldsmith of The New York Times stated, "Warhol's basic philosophical premise is 'nothing'; not the futility of human endeavor of Sartre and Camus, or the void beyond pain of Joan Didion, but simply—nothing added.

"[10] John Raymond of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote: "Andy Warhol's philosophy is not a philosophical system in the accepted sense … Even esthetics, which as an artist you might think would interest him, doesn't really.

"[5] Owen Findsen of The Cincinnati Enquirer observed that "the book reads like a Richard Brautigan novel about a character that combines the humor and self-image of Woody Allen with the moral ethics of Tiny Tim.