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Title It occurs to me that I am America : new stories and art / edited by Jonathan Santlofer ; introduction by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Imprint New York : Touchstone, 2018
©2018

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Edition First Touchstone hardcover edition
Descript xix, 374 s. : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note Foreword / Johnathan Santlofer -- Introduction / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Speak! Speak! / Julia Alvarez -- Oh, Canada / Russell Banks -- Blackout / Jane Kent -- Party / Bliss Broyard -- Compline / Stephen, L. Carter -- Scenes from late paradise: stupidity ; Late America / Eric Fischl -- New blank document / Lee Child -- Tell her anyway / Bridget Hawkins -- Veterans Day / Mary Higgins Clark -- Atonement / Michael Cunningham -- Intersections / Mark Di Ionno -- Third twin / Anna Dunn -- Politics / Roz Chast -- Balancing acts / Louise Erdrich -- The Miss April Houses / Angela Flournoy -- The world is yours, the world is mine ; The many faces of Islam / Shahzia Sikander -- Fires / Elizabeth Frank -- Hate for sale / Neil Gaiman -- Unaccountable / Philip Gourevitch -- White baby / James Hannaham -- Your sacred American rights bingo / Mimi Pond -- In the trees / Alice Hoffman -- Getting somewhere / Susan Isaacs -- Guantánamo, ERF team: making prisoner in the eye ; Guantánamo, ERF team: waterboarding prisoner / Susan Crile -- Mr. Crime and punishment and war and peace / Gish Jen -- Finally I am American at heart / Ha Jin -- Arlington street / Lily King -- The harlot and the murderer: Sonia's story / Sheila Kohler -- Starry starry night ; Trade canoe: forty days and forty nights / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- "People are people" / Elinor Lipman -- The trout fisherman / Joyce Maynard -- Listen / Susan Minot -- Between storms / Walter Mosley -- Our cuntry needs you ; Tic-tac-toe ; Deep frost / Marilyn Minter -- "Good news!" / Joyce Carol Oates -- Island of tears ... ; Island of hope! ; Ghost of Ellis Island / Art Spiegelman -- Safety first / Sara Paretsky -- Look away ; Loving in black & white / Beverly McIver -- Bystanders (April 2003) / Tom Piazza -- Lucky girl / Heidi Pitlor -- If they come in the morning / S.J. Rozan -- Top step / Richard Russo -- The ugliest American alphabet / Eric Orner -- Hope / Johnathan Santlofer -- The walk / Elizabeth Strout -- Vote Hillary / Deborah Kass -- Stop & shop / Paul Theroux -- Little house on the prairie holding company LLC / David Storey -- The way we read now / Justin Torres -- Don't despair / Alice Walker -- Learning American values / Edmund White -- Letter from Anthony D. Romero -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Subject 2000-2099
Short stories, American
American fiction -- 21st century
FICTION -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
FICTION -- Political.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- General.
American fiction.
Short stories, American.
Skönlitteratur
Novellet
Samlingsverk
Illustrerade verk
Short stories.
Short stories, American.
Short stories.
Classmark 813/.010806
FIC003000 FIC037000 LCO002000
Alt Auth Santlofer, Jonathan, 1946- editor
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- writer of introduction
Alvarez, Julia, author
Banks, Russell, 1940- author
Kent, J. A., 1952- artist
Broyard, Bliss, author
Carter, Stephen L., 1954- author
Fischl, Eric, 1948- artist
Child, Lee, 1954-
Hawkins, Bridget, 1996- artist
Clark, Mary Higgins, author
Cunningham, Michael, 1952- author
Di Ionno, Mark, author
Dunn, Anna, author
Chast, Roz, artist
Erdrich, Louise, author
Flournoy, Angela, author
Sikander, Shahzia, 1969- artist
Frank, Elizabeth, 1945- author
Gaiman, Neil, 1960-
Gourevitch, Philip, 1961- author
Hannaham, James, author
Pond, Mimi, artist
Hoffman, Alice, author
Isaacs, Susan, 1943- author
Crile, Susan, 1942- artist
Jen, Gish, author
Jin, Ha, 1956- author
King, Lily, author
Kohler, Sheila, author
Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940- artist
Lipman, Elinor, author
Maynard, Joyce, 1953- author
Minot, Susan, author
Mosley, Walter, author
Minter, Marilyn, 1948- artist
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author
Spiegelman, Art, artist
Paretsky, Sara, author
McIver, Beverly, artist
Piazza, Tom, 1955- author
Pitlor, Heidi, author
Rozan, S. J, author
Russo, Richard, 1949- author
Orner, Eric, artist
Santlofer, Jonathan, 1946- author
Strout, Elizabeth, author
Kass, Deborah, 1952- artist
Theroux, Paul, author
Storey, David, 1954- artist
Torres, Justin, 1980- author
Walker, Alice, 1944- author
White, Edmund, 1940- author
ISBN/ISSN 9781501179600 (hardback)
1501179608 (hardback)
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