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Orem Public Library
The best American nonrequired reading. 2006 /
by
Eggers, Dave
New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Subjects
American prose literature
Short stories, American
American wit and humor
Series
Best American series
Format/Call #:
818 B4643
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Authorship:
edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Matt Groening.
Series Title:
Best American series
Description:
373 p. ; ill.
UPC
9780618570515
ISSN
1539-316X
Contents:
I. Best American fake headlines; from, The onion -- Best American Daily show exchange on the anniverary of Watergate; from, The Daily show with Jon Stewart -- Best American ringing defeat of religion masquerading as Science; from, Kitzmiller v. Dover -- Best American answers to the question "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"; from, The Edge Foundation -- Best American excerpt from a military blog; from, A soldier's thoughts -- Best American epigraph wherein a contemporary writer quotes a great writer who died in 2005; from, Saturday, by Ian McEwan -- Best American first sentences of novels of 2005 -- Best American new words and phrases; from, The Oxford dictionary of English, revised second edition -- Best American new band names -- Best American things to know about Chuck Norris; from, Chuck Norris facts -- Best American things to know about hoboes; from, The areas of my expertise.
II. Shipwreck; from The Georgia review / Cat Bohannon -- Nadia; from, One story / Judy Budnitz -- Pyongyang: a journey in North Korea (excerpt) / Guy Delisle -- The insurgent's tale; from, Rolling stone / Tom Downey -- The innocents; from, Wish you where here / Gipi -- The Iraqi constitution; from, The Washington post -- Me and you and everyone we know; from, The original shooting script / Miranda July -- Wading toward home; from, The New York times magazine / Michael Lewis -- Are Iraqis optimistic? / The Lincoln group -- Room no. 12; from, Zoetrope: all-story / Naguib Mahfouz -- Pirate station; from, Gargoyle / Rick Moody -- The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day; from, The New Yorker / Haruki Murakami -- False cognate; from, Hobart / Jeff Parker -- Love it or leave it; from, Don't get too comfortable / David Rakoff -- Trauma on loan; from, The guardian / Joe Sacco -- The new mecca; from GQ / George Saunders -- Peg; from Open city / Sam Shaw -- Letting go of God?; from, This American life / Julia Sweeney -- Here is a lesson in creative writing; from, A man without a country / Kurt Vonnegut -- Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace.
ISBN
9780618570515
Additional Names:
Saunders, George
Sweeney, Julia
Vonnegut, Kurt
Wallace, David Foster
Shaw, Sam
Bohannon, Cat
Budnitz, Judy
Delisle, Guy
Downey, Tom
July, Miranda
Lewis, Michael
Mahfouz, Naguib
Moody, Rick
Murakami, Haruki
Parker, Jeff
Rakoff, David
Sacco, Joe
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