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The new kings of nonfiction / edited and introduced by Ira Glass.
LIBRA PS659.2 .N49 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--21st century.
- American prose literature.
- Reportage literature, American.
- American essays--21st century.
- American essays.
- Physical Description:
- 455 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life. These pieces--on teenage white collar criminals, buying a cow, Saddam Hussein, drunken British soccer culture, and how we know everyone in our Rolodex-are meant to mesmerize and inspire. --From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Ira Glass
- Johnathan Lebed's extracurricular activities / Michael Lewis
- Toxic dreams: a California town finds meaning in an acid pit / Jack Hitt
- Six degrees of Lois Weisberg / Malcolm Gladwell
- Shapinsky's karma / Lawrence Weschler
- The American man, age ten / Susan Orlean
- Among the thugs / Bill Buford
- Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy / Chuck Klosterman
- Host / David Foster Wallace
- Tales of the tyrant / Mark Bowden
- Losing the war / Lee Sandlin
- The hostess dairies: my year at a hot spot / Coco Henson Scales
- My Republican journey / Dan Savage
- Power steer / Michael Pollan
- Fortune's smile: world series of poker / James McManus.
- ISBN:
- 9781594482670 :
- 1594482675 :
- OCLC:
- 149010937
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