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245 04 $aThe best American nonrequired reading 2006 /$cedited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Matt Groening.
246 30 $aNonrequired reading 2006
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c2006.
300 $axvii, 377 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
440 4 $aThe best American series
505 0 $aI. Best American fake headlines (from The Onion) -- Best American 'Daily Show' exchange on the anniversary of Watergate (from The Daily Show with John Stewart) -- Best American ringing defeat of religion masquerading as science (from Kitzmiller v. Dover) -- Best American answers to the question "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" (from A Soldier's Thoughts) -- Best American epigraph wherein a contemporary writer quotes a great writer who died in 2005 (from Saturday, by Ian McEwan) -- Best American first sentences of novels of 2005 -- Best American new worlds and phrases (from The Oxford Dictionary of English, revised second edition) -- Best American things to know about Chuck Norris (from Chuck Norris Facts) -- Best American things to know about hoboes (from The Areas of My Expertise) -- II. Shipwreck / Cat Bohannon (from The Georgia Review) -- Nadia / Judy Budnitz (from One Story) -- Pyongyang: a journey in North Korea (excerpt) / Guy Delisle -- The insurgent's tale / Tom Downey (from Rolling Stone) -- The innocents / Gipi (from Wish You Were Here) -- The Iraqi Constitution (from The Washington Post) -- Me and you and everyone we know / Miranda July (from the original shooting script) -- Wading toward home / Michael Lewis (from The New York Times Magazine) -- Are Iraquis optimistic? / The Lincoln Group -- Room no. 12 / Naguib Mahfouz (from Zoetrope: All-Story -- Pirate station / Rick Moody (from Gargoyle) -- The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day / Haruki Murakami (from The New Yorker) -- False cognate / Jeff Parker (from Hobart) -- Love it or leave it / David Rakoff (from Don't Get Too Comfortable -- Trauma on loan / Joe Sacco (from The Guardian) -- The new Mecca / George Saunders (from GQ) -- Peg / Sam Shaw (from Open City) -- Letting go of God? / Julia Sweeney (from This American Life) -- Here is a lesson in creative writing / Kurt Vonnegut (from A Man Without a Country) -- Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace.
520 $aPresents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$y21st century.
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650 0 $aAmerican wit and humor$y21st century.
700 1 $aEggers, Dave.
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