| Edition |
1st Chronicle Books LLC paperback ed. |
| Description |
xi, 561 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Each selection is introduced by the author. |
| Contents |
Dilbert, Oct. 8, 2001 / Scott Adams -- Jimmy Hoffa's Odyssey / Ai -- From: Before we were free / Julia Alvarez -- Confessions of a lonely atheist / Natalie Angier -- From: Timbuktu / Paul Auster -- Filthy with things / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- From: Sweet Summer / Bebe Moore Campbell -- What to do / Hayden Carruth -- From: Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros -- Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- A short story / Emma Donoghue -- Her island / Rita Dove -- From: Tiger-frame glasses / Carolyn Ferrell -- Dumped / Helen Fisher -- From: Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot / Al Franken -- Surprise / Martin Gardner -- A hidden killer in Cajun country / Laurie Garrett -- From: Migrations of the heart / Marita Golden -- The former First Lady and the football hero / A.M. Homes -- From: Fanatics and fools / Arianna Huffington -- From: A taste for death / P.D. James -- Who's Irish? / Gish Jen -- From: Cherry / Mary Karr -- From: The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver -- From: China men / Maxine Hong Kingston -- A gaggle of saints / Neil LaBute -- From: Under my skin / Doris Lessing -- From: The fortress of solitude / Jonathan Lethem -- My father with cigarette ... / Philip Levine -- The mappist / Barry Lopez -- From: The facts behind the Helsinki roccamatios / Yann Martel -- From: Property / Valerie Martin -- From: Salesman in Beijing / Arthur Miller -- From Mao to America / Anchee Min -- From: Farewell the trumpets / Jan Morris -- From: The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami -- The wedding at the courthouse / Kathleen Norris -- From: Intimate apparel / Lynn Nottage -- The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates -- Impossible to tell / Robert Pinsky -- From: The botany of desire / Michael Pollan -- America, the multi-national society / Ishmael Reed -- The queen of mold / Ruth Reichl -- From Anthropology: Normal; Pieces; [and 5 others] / Dan Rhodes -- From: Fierce invalids home from hot climates / Tom Robbins -- Sand / Richard Rodriguez -- Getting away from it all / Witold Rybczynski -- Repeat after me / David Sedaris -- Flakes of fire, handfuls of light / Huston Smith -- From: Who needs donuts? / Mark Alan Stamaty -- Frank Sinatra has a cold / Gay Talese -- Doonesbury: The golden hour / Garry Trudeau -- From: The laws of our fathers / Scott Turow -- From: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / Anne Tyler -- Your lover just called / John Updike -- Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
English literature -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature. |
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American literature -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Powers, Retha.
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Kiernan, Kathy.
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| ISBN |
0811848299 |
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