State by State (eBook, ePUB)

A Panoramic Portrait of America
Redaktion: Weiland, Matt; Wilsey, Sean

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by Depression-era travel guides, an anthology of essays on each of the fifty states, plus Washington, D.C., by some of America's finest writers. State by Stateis a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation.

• Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey
• Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1
• Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota
• Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York's publicist... and personal attorney... and historian... and geologist
• John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a "Massachusettsean"
• Edward P. Jones makes the case: D.C. should be a state!
• Jhumpa Lahiri declares her reckless love for the Rhode Island coast
• Rich Moody explores the dark heart of Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, exit by exit
• Ann Patchett makes a pilgrimage to the Civil War site at Shiloh, Tennessee
• William T. Vollman visits a San Francisco S&M club
• And many more

Praise for State by State An NPR Best Book of the Year "The full plumage of American life, in all its riotous glory." - The New Yorker "Odds are, you'll fall for every state a little." - Los Angeles Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins e-books
• Seitenzahl: 854
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062043573
• Artikelnr.: 38006297

Autorenporträt

Matt Weiland is the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review. He has been an editor at Granta, The Baffler and The New Press, and he oversaw a documentary radio unit at NPR. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Observer, The Nation and The New Republic. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.