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Stumbling and raging : more politically inspired fiction / edited by Stephen Elliott ; with associate editors, Greg Larson ... [and others].
LIBRA PS648.P6 S78 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political fiction, American.
- Current events.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--Fiction.
- United States.
- Current events--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : MacAdam/Cage Pub., [2005]
- Summary:
- Following on from the success of Politically Inspired in 2003 comes Politically Inspired, Still. These short stories have all been influenced by today's politics and are a collection from today's well known and emerging writers. Each of the short stories offers a new perspective on today's politics of fear, desire, and destruction. Some of this year's contributors are: Anthony Swofford ? Jarhead Aimee Bender - The Girl In The Flammable Skirt Andrew Sean Greer - The Confessions Of Max Tivoli Ann Packer - The Dive From Clausen Pier Audrey Niffeneger - The Time Traveler's Wife Peter Orner - Esther Stories Chris Abani - Graceland David Amsden - Important Things That Don't Really Matter
- Contents:
- The soldier as a boy / Otis Haschemeyer
- Requiem for Sammy the magic cat / Andrew Foster Altschul
- El fin del mundo / Michelle Herman
- Your mother and I / Dave Eggers
- The letter from Saint Herpetology Chapel / Ron Carlson
- How little we know about cast polymers, and about life / Ben Greenman
- Even Steven / Aimee Bender
- Morning martyrs / Eric Orner
- Jewy Jew / Neal Pollack
- A conversation over tea / Chris Abani
- Letter to Florida Department of Corrections / Adam Johnson
- Social contract / F.S. Yu
- Questions of war / Ellen Rossiter
- The cremation ground / Karan Mahajan
- Machu Picchu / Sandra Cisneros
- Camp Whitehorse / Alicia Erian
- Islanders / Stefan Kiesbye
- Level orange / Doug Dorst
- False cognate / Jeff Parker
- To the director of air defense marketing / Adam Johnson
- Motherhood and terrorism / Amanda Eyre Ward
- Newholly / Ryan Boudinot
- To Dick Cheney, re: shadow government opportunities / Adam Johnson
- John Ashcroft : more important things than me / Jim Shepard
- An open letter to William Kristol, Richard Perle, et al. / John Warner
- Tough day for the army / John Warner
- Peaches / Glori Simmons
- War chain / Avital Gad-Cykman
- Survey of impact / Laurenn McCubbin & Stephen Elliott
- Pull! / David Amsden
- The translator / Courtney Angela Brkic.
- ISBN:
- 1596921587
- OCLC:
- 61478658
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