It occurs to me that I am America : new stories and art /
It occurs to me that I am America : new stories and art /
edited by Jonathan Santlofer ; introduction by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
- First Touchstone hardcover edition.
- xix, 374 pages ; illustrations (some color), 24 cm
Foreword / Introduction / Speak! Speak! / Oh, Canada / Blackout / Party / Compline / Scenes from late paradise: stupidity ; Late America / New blank document / Tell her anyway / Veterans Day / Atonement / Intersections / Third twin / Politics / Balancing acts / The Miss April Houses / The world is yours, the world is mine ; The many faces of Islam / Fires / Hate for sale / Unaccountable / White baby / Your sacred American rights bingo / In the trees / Getting somewhere / Guantánamo, ERF team: making prisoner in the eye ; Guantánamo, ERF team: waterboarding prisoner / Mr. Crime and punishment and war and peace / Finally I am American at heart / Arlington street / The harlot and the murderer: Sonia's story / Starry starry night ; Trade canoe: forty days and forty nights / "People are people" / The trout fisherman / Listen / Between storms / Our cuntry needs you ; Tic-tac-toe ; Deep frost / "Good news!" / Island of tears... ; Island of hope! ; Ghost of Ellis Island / Safety first / Look away ; Loving in black & white / Bystanders (April 2003) / Lucky girl / If they come in the morning / Top step / The ugliest American alphabet / Hope / The walk / Vote Hillary / Stop & shop / Little house on the prairie holding company LLC / The way we read now / Don't despair / Learning American values / Letter from Anthony D. Romero -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions. Johnathan Santlofer -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Julia Alvarez -- Russell Banks -- Jane Kent -- Bliss Broyard -- Stephen, L. Carter -- Eric Fischl -- Lee Child -- Bridget Hawkins -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Michael Cunningham -- Mark Di Ionno -- Anna Dunn -- Roz Chast -- Louise Erdrich -- Angela Flournoy -- Shahzia Sikander -- Elizabeth Frank - Neil Gaiman -- Philip Gourevitch -- James Hannaham -- Mimi Pond -- Alice Hoffman -- Susan Isaacs - Susan Crile -- Gish Jen -- Ha Jin -- Lily King -- Sheila Kohler -- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- Elinor Lipman -- Joyce Maynard -- Susan Minot -- Walter Mosley -- Marilyn Minter -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Art Spiegelman -- Sara Paretsky -- Beverly McIver -- Tom Piazza -- Heidi Pitlor -- S. J. Rozan -- Richard Russo -- Eric Orner -- Johnathan Santlofer -- Elizabeth Strout -- Deborah Kass -- Paul Theroux -- David Storey -- Justin Torres -- Alice Walker -- Edmund White --
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
9781501179600 1501179608
2017055446
Short stories, American.
American fiction--21st century.
Short stories.
Foreword / Introduction / Speak! Speak! / Oh, Canada / Blackout / Party / Compline / Scenes from late paradise: stupidity ; Late America / New blank document / Tell her anyway / Veterans Day / Atonement / Intersections / Third twin / Politics / Balancing acts / The Miss April Houses / The world is yours, the world is mine ; The many faces of Islam / Fires / Hate for sale / Unaccountable / White baby / Your sacred American rights bingo / In the trees / Getting somewhere / Guantánamo, ERF team: making prisoner in the eye ; Guantánamo, ERF team: waterboarding prisoner / Mr. Crime and punishment and war and peace / Finally I am American at heart / Arlington street / The harlot and the murderer: Sonia's story / Starry starry night ; Trade canoe: forty days and forty nights / "People are people" / The trout fisherman / Listen / Between storms / Our cuntry needs you ; Tic-tac-toe ; Deep frost / "Good news!" / Island of tears... ; Island of hope! ; Ghost of Ellis Island / Safety first / Look away ; Loving in black & white / Bystanders (April 2003) / Lucky girl / If they come in the morning / Top step / The ugliest American alphabet / Hope / The walk / Vote Hillary / Stop & shop / Little house on the prairie holding company LLC / The way we read now / Don't despair / Learning American values / Letter from Anthony D. Romero -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions. Johnathan Santlofer -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Julia Alvarez -- Russell Banks -- Jane Kent -- Bliss Broyard -- Stephen, L. Carter -- Eric Fischl -- Lee Child -- Bridget Hawkins -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Michael Cunningham -- Mark Di Ionno -- Anna Dunn -- Roz Chast -- Louise Erdrich -- Angela Flournoy -- Shahzia Sikander -- Elizabeth Frank - Neil Gaiman -- Philip Gourevitch -- James Hannaham -- Mimi Pond -- Alice Hoffman -- Susan Isaacs - Susan Crile -- Gish Jen -- Ha Jin -- Lily King -- Sheila Kohler -- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- Elinor Lipman -- Joyce Maynard -- Susan Minot -- Walter Mosley -- Marilyn Minter -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Art Spiegelman -- Sara Paretsky -- Beverly McIver -- Tom Piazza -- Heidi Pitlor -- S. J. Rozan -- Richard Russo -- Eric Orner -- Johnathan Santlofer -- Elizabeth Strout -- Deborah Kass -- Paul Theroux -- David Storey -- Justin Torres -- Alice Walker -- Edmund White --
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--
9781501179600 1501179608
2017055446
Short stories, American.
American fiction--21st century.
Short stories.