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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Matt Weiland; Sean Wilsey |
| ISBN: | 0061470902 9780061470905 |
| OCLC Number: | 191932095 |
| Notes: | Map on endpapers. |
| Description: | xxxi, 572 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface / by Matt Weiland -- Introduction / by Sean Wilsey -- Alabama / by George Packer -- Alaska / by Paul Greenberg -- Arizona / Lydia Millet -- Arkansas / by Kevin Brockmeier -- California / by William T. Vollmann -- Colorado / by Benjamin Kunkel -- Connecticut / by Rick Moody -- Delaware / by Craig Taylor -- Florida / by Joshua Ferris -- Georgia / by Ha Jin -- Hawaii / by Tara Bray Smith -- Idaho / by Anthony Doerr -- Illinois / by Dave Eggers -- Indiana / by Susan Choi -- Iowa / by Dagoberto Gilb -- Kansas / by Jim Lewis -- Kentucky / by John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Louisiana / by Joshua Clark -- Maine / by Heidi Julavits -- Maryland / by Myla Goldberg -- Massachusetts / by John Hodgman -- Michigan / by Mohammed Naseehu Ali -- Minnesota / by Philip Connors -- Mississippi / by Barry Hannah -- Missouri / by Jacki Lyden -- Montana / by Sarah Vowell -- Nebraska / by Alexander Payne -- Nevada / by Charles Bock -- New Hampshire / by Will Blythe -- New Jersey / by Anthony Bourdain -- New Mexico / by Ellery Washington -- New York / by Jonathan Franzen -- North Carolina / by Randall Kenan -- North Dakota / by Louise Erdrich -- Ohio / by Susan Orlean -- Oklahoma / by S. E. Hinton -- Oregon / by Joe Sacco -- Pennsylvania / by Andrea Lee -- Rhode Island / by Jhumpa Lahiri -- South Carolina / by Jack Hitt -- South Dakota / by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Tennessee / by Ann Patchett --Texas / by Christina Henríquez -- Utah / by David Rakoff -- Vermont / by Alison Bechdel -- Virginia / by Tony Horwitz -- Washington / by Carrie Brownstein -- West Virginia / by Jayne Anne Phillips -- Wisconsin / by Daphne Beal -- Wyoming / by Alexandra Fuller -- Afterword: Washington, D.C. / a conversation with Edward P. Jones -- The 50 states in numbers. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey. |
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Abstract:
The editors of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup collects original writings on all fifty states by leading novelists, journalists, and essayists, in a volume that includes such examples as Anthony Bourdain on New Jersey, Dave Eggers on Illinois, and Louise Erdrich on North Dakota.
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