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From the bestselling editors of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup comes an American road trip in book original writing on all 50 states by 50 of our finest novelists, journalists, and essayistsInspired by the example of the legendary WPA American Guide series of the 1930s and '40s, now 50 of our foremost writers have produced original pieces of reportage and memoir that capture the 50 states in our time, creating a fresh portrait of America as it lives and breathes today.At turns poignant and funny, and always insightful, these 50 writers tell us something lasting and revealing about each state through personal memory or contemporary reporting that captures the essential qualities that make each state its own. With an array of revealing facts and figures comparing the 50 states in a range of surprising measures (toothlessness, military enlistment, suicide), State by State is more than an It is a classic American road movie in book form.Featuring original writing on all fifty statesAlabama by George PackerAlaska by Paul GreenbergArizona by Lydia MilletArkansas by Kevin BrockmeierCalifornia by William T. VollmannColorado by Benjamin KunkelConnecticut by Rick MoodyDelaware by Craig TaylorFlorida by Joshua FerrisGeorgia by Ha JinHawaii by Tara Bray SmithIdaho by Anthony DoerrIllinois by Dave EggersIndiana by Susan ChoiIowa by Dagoberto GilbKansas by Jim LewisKentucky by John Jeremiah SullivanLouisiana by Joshua ClarkMaine by Heidi JulavitsMaryland by Myla GoldbergMassachusetts by John HodgmanMichigan by Mohammed Naseehu AliMinnesota by Philip ConnorsMississippi by Barry HannahMissouri by Jacki LydenMontana by Sarah VowellNebraska by Alexander PayneNevada by Charles BockNew Hampshire by Will BlytheNew Jersey by Anthony BourdainNew Mexico by Ellery WashingtonNew York by Jonathan FranzenNorth Carolina by Randall KenanNorth Dakota by Louise ErdrichOhio by Susan OrleanOklahoma by S.E. HintonOregon by Joe SaccoPennsylvania by Andrea LeeRhode Island by Jhumpa LahiriSouth Carolina by Jack HittSouth Dakota by Saïd SayrafiezadehTennessee by Ann PatchettTexas by Cristina HenríquezUtah by David RakoffVermont by Alison BechdelVirginia by Tony HorwitzWashington by Carrie BrownsteinWest Virginia by Jayne Anne PhillipsWisconsin by Daphne BealWyoming by Alexandra Fuller and an afterword on Washington, A Conversation with Edward P. Jones
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About the Author
Matt Weiland is the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review. He has been an editor at Granta, The Baffler and The New Press, and he oversaw a documentary radio unit at NPR. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Observer, The Nation and The New Republic. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Without leaving home or spending a cent on gas, readers of this book can enjoy a scenic view of the entire U.S. that is as familiar as it is disorienting. Weiland, deputy editor of the Paris Review, and Wilsey, editor-at-large for McSweeney's, have gathered a group of 50 disparate voices to explore not just their experience in America, but the way each state was presented in the American Guide series of the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s, in which the Works Project Administration (WPA), as part of F.D.R's New Deal, put more than 6000 American writers to work creating a portrait of this country. The editors wanted to make a book inspired by the ideals behind the WPA Guides but they also wanted something more personal, more eccentric, and more partial. Obvious heavy-hitters—Dave Eggars (Illinois), Rick Moody (Connecticut), Jhumpa Lahiri (Rhode Island), Barry Hannah (Mississippi), William T. Vollmann (California)—are included, as well as some wonderful surprises. Alison Bechdel's illustrated story about her life after moving to Vermont brilliantly combines personal history with historical fact, as does Charles Bock's essay on growing up and working in his parent's Las Vegas pawnshop. Mohammed Naseehu Ali's tale of life in Michigan, after moving there from Ghana as a teen, illuminates what the unconditionally generous Michigan nature shares with the traditions of his own Hausa-Islamic culture. And Franzen's imaginary interview with the state of New York is perhaps the high point among this collection of beguiling summations of something all the writers share: a love-hate relationship with how their chosen state has changed and evolved during the course of their lives. (Sept.)
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