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Title:

The best American nonrequired reading 2006 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Matt Groening

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvii, 377 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Subject:

American prose literature--21st century
Short stories, American
American wit and humor--21st century

Other Authors:

Eggers, Dave

Contents:

Best American things to know about hoboes Best American daily show exchange on the anniversary of Watergate -- Best American ringing defeat of religion masquerading as science -- Best American answers to the question "what do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it" -- Best American excerpt from a military blog -- Best American epigraph wherin a comtemporary writer quotes a great writer who died in 2005 -- Best American first sentences of novels of 2005 -- Best American new words and phrases -- Best American new band names -- Best American things to know about Chuck Norris -- Best American things to know about hoboes
Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace Nadia / Judy Budnitz -- Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea / Guy Delisle -- The insurgent's tale / Tom Downey -- The innocents / Gipi -- The Iraqi constitution -- Me and you and everone we know / Miranda July -- Wading toward home / Michael Lewis -- Are Iraqis optimistic / Lincoln Group -- Room no. 12 / Naguib Mahfouz -- Pirate station / Rick Moody -- The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day / Haruki Murakami -- False cognate / Jeff Parker -- Love it or leave it / David Rakoff -- Trauma on loan / Joe Sacco -- The new Mecca / George Sauders -- Peg / Sam Shaw -- Letting go of God? / Julia Sweeney -- Here is a lesson in creative writing / Kurt Vonnegut -- Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace

Series:

The best American series

ISBN:

9780618570515 (pbk.)
0618570519 (pbk.)
9780618570508
0618570500

OCLC:

(OCoLC)72521733

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)