The best American nonrequired reading 2006

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Best American nonrequired reading

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Best American nonrequired reading

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Houghton Mifflin

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2006

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English

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1 of 1	CMC Steamboat Campus	PS 645 .B47 2006
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xvii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.

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Introduction / Matt Groening

Best American fake headlines / from The Onion

Best American Daily Show exchange on the anniversary of Watergate / From The Daily Show with Jon 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 The Edge Foundation

Best American excerpt from a military blog / 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 words and phrases / from The Oxford Dictionary of English, revised, second edition

Best American new band names

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

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 towards home / Michael Lewis (from The New York Times Magazine)

Are Iraqis optimistic? / The Lincoln Group

Room no. 12 / Naguib Mahfouz (from Zoetrop : 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.

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American prose literature
American prose literature -- 21st century
American wit and humor
American wit and humor -- 21st century
Short stories, American

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Eggers, Dave

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9780618570515
9780618570508

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