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Subject(s)

• American essays—21st century [Browse]

Related name

• Park, Ed, 1970- [Browse]
• Julavits, Heidi [Browse]
• Millionaire, Tony [Browse]

Notes

"These pieces appeared between March 2003 and June 2009 in the Believer magazine"--T.p. verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction / by Heidi Julavits
• No man's land / by Eula Biss
• Gidget on the couch / by Peter Lunenfeld
• Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny / by Ed Park
• How to be a Christian artist / by Rick Moody
• "And suppress the unpleasant things" / by William T. Vollmann
• The bad mormon / by Ben Ehrenreich
• Why look at fish? / by Ginger Strand
• "Sir, permission to go AWOL from the interesting, sir!" / by Tom Bissell
• Transmissions from Camp Trans / by Michelle Tea
• In praise of termites / by Franklin Bruno
• A brief take on genetic screening / by Richard Powers
• The Sinatra doctrine / by Rich Cohen
• How far can you press a poet? / by David Orr
• Symbolism and cynicism / by Tayari Jones
• Let us now kill white elephants / by Howard Hampton
• Destroy all monsters / by Paul La Farge
• Waiting for the bad thing / by Sam Lipstye
• Whirl / by Scott Eden
• The score / by Stephen Elliott
• The American vicarious / by Jonathan Lethem
• Transit Byzantium / by Joe Hagan.

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Other title(s)

Believer (San Francisco, Calif.)

Subtitle on cover

Five years of great writing from the Believer

ISBN

• 1934781398 (pbk.) :
• 9781934781395 (pbk.) :

OCLC

262431118

RCP

H - S

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