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It occurs to me that I am America: new stories and art
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Foreward / Johnathan Santlofer --
Introduction / Viet Thanh Nguyen --
Speak! Speak! / Julia Alvarez --
Oh, Canada / Russell Banks --
Blackout / Jane Kent --
Party / Bliss Broyard --
Compline / Stephen, L. Carter --
Scenes from late paradise: stupidity ; Late America / Eric Fischl --
New blank document / Lee Child --
Tell her anyway / Bridget Hawkins --
Veterans Day / Mary Higgins Clark --
Atonement / Michael Cunningham --
Intersections / Mark Di Ionno --
Third twin / Anna Dunn --
Politics / Roz Chast --
Balancing acts / Louise Erdrich --
The Miss April Houses / Angela Flournoy --
The world is yours, the world is mine ; The many faces of Islam / Shahzia Sikander --
Fires / Elizabeth Frank - Hate for sale / Neil Gaiman --
Unaccountable / Philip Gourevitch --
White baby / James Hannaham --
Your sacred American rights bingo / Mimi Pond --
In the trees / Alice Hoffman --
Getting somewhere / Susan Isaacs - Guantánamo, ERF team: making prisoner in the eye ; Guantánamo, ERF team: waterboarding prisoner / Susan Crile --
Mr. Crime and punishment and war and peace / Gish Jen --
Finally I am American at heart / Ha Jin --
Arlington street / Lily King --
The harlot and the murderer: Sonia's story / Sheila Kohler --
Starry starry night ; Trade canoe: forty days and forty nights / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith --
"People are people" / Elinor Lipman --
The trout fisherman / Joyce Maynard --
Listen / Susan Minot --
Between storms / Walter Mosley --
Our cuntry needs you ; Tic-tac-toe ; Deep frost / Marilyn Minter --
"Good news!" / Joyce Carol Oates --
Island of tears... ; Island of hope! ; Ghost of Ellis Island / Art Spiegelman --
Safety first / Sara Paretsky --
Look away ; Loving in black & white / Beverly McIver --
Bystanders (April 2003) / Tom Piazza --
Lucky girl / Heidi Pitlor --
If they come in the morning / S. J. Rozan --
Top step / Richard Russo --
The ugliest American alphabet / Eric Orner --
Hope / Johnathan Santlofer --
The walk / Elizabeth Strout --
Vote Hillary / Deborah Kass --
Stop & shop / Paul Theroux --
Little house on the prairie holding company LLC / David Storey --
The way we read now / Justin Torres --
Don't despair / Alice Walker --
Learning American values / Edmund White --
Letter from Anthony D. Romero --
Acknowledgments --
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Contributors
Alvarez, Julia aut
Banks, Russell,1940- aut
Broyard, Bliss aut
Carter, Stephen L.,1954- aut
Chast, Roz art
Banks, Russell,1940- aut
Broyard, Bliss aut
Carter, Stephen L.,1954- aut
Chast, Roz art
Child, Lee aut
Clark, Mary Higgins aut
Crile, Susan,1942- art
Cunningham, Michael,1952- aut
Di Ionno, Mark aut
Dunn, Anna aut
Erdrich, Louise aut
Fischl, Eric,1948- art
Flournoy, Angela aut
Frank, Elizabeth,1945- aut
Gaiman, Neil aut
Gourevitch, Philip,1961- aut
Hannaham, James aut
Hawkins, Bridget art
Hoffman, Alice aut
Isaacs, Susan,1943- aut
Jen, Gish aut
Jin, Ha,1956- aut
Kass, Deborah,1952- art
Kent, J. A.,1952- art
King, Lily aut
Kohler, Sheila aut
Lipman, Elinor aut
Maynard, Joyce,1953- aut
McIver, Beverly art
Minot, Susan aut
Minter, Marilyn,1948- art
Mosley, Walter aut
Nguyen, Viet Thanh,1971- aui
Oates, Joyce Carol,1938- aut
Orner, Eric art
Paretsky, Sara aut
Piazza, Tom,1955- aut
Pitlor, Heidi aut
Pond, Mimi art
Rozan, S. J. aut
Russo, Richard,1949- aut
Santlofer, Jonathan,1946- aut, aui
Sikander, Shahzia,1969- art
Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See,1940- art
Spiegelman, Art art
Storey, David,1954- art
Strout, Elizabeth aut
Theroux, Paul aut
Torres, Justin,1980- aut
Walker, Alice,1944- aut
White, Edmund,1940- aut
Clark, Mary Higgins aut
Crile, Susan,1942- art
Cunningham, Michael,1952- aut
Di Ionno, Mark aut
Dunn, Anna aut
Erdrich, Louise aut
Fischl, Eric,1948- art
Flournoy, Angela aut
Frank, Elizabeth,1945- aut
Gaiman, Neil aut
Gourevitch, Philip,1961- aut
Hannaham, James aut
Hawkins, Bridget art
Hoffman, Alice aut
Isaacs, Susan,1943- aut
Jen, Gish aut
Jin, Ha,1956- aut
Kass, Deborah,1952- art
Kent, J. A.,1952- art
King, Lily aut
Kohler, Sheila aut
Lipman, Elinor aut
Maynard, Joyce,1953- aut
McIver, Beverly art
Minot, Susan aut
Minter, Marilyn,1948- art
Mosley, Walter aut
Nguyen, Viet Thanh,1971- aui
Oates, Joyce Carol,1938- aut
Orner, Eric art
Paretsky, Sara aut
Piazza, Tom,1955- aut
Pitlor, Heidi aut
Pond, Mimi art
Rozan, S. J. aut
Russo, Richard,1949- aut
Santlofer, Jonathan,1946- aut, aui
Sikander, Shahzia,1969- art
Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See,1940- art
Spiegelman, Art art
Storey, David,1954- art
Strout, Elizabeth aut
Theroux, Paul aut
Torres, Justin,1980- aut
Walker, Alice,1944- aut
White, Edmund,1940- aut
ISBN
9781501179600
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