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Burton Barr Central Library
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818.608 B4643 2006
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On Shelf
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818.608 B4643 2006
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On Shelf
- (Checked in: Dec 13 2012 )
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Summary:
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.
Contents:
- Best American fake headlines
- Best American Daily Show exchange on the anniversary of Watergate
- Best American ringing defeat of religion masquerading as science
- Best American answers to the question "what do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"
- Best American excerpt from a military blog
- Best American epigraph wherein a contemporary writer quotes a great writer who died in 2005
- Best American first sentences of novels of 2005
- Best American new words and phrases
- Best American new band names
- Best American things to know about Chuck Norris
- Best American things to know about hoboes
- Shipwreck / Cat Bohannon
- Nadia / Judy Budnitz
- Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea (excerpt) / Guy Delisle
- The insurgent's tale / Tom Downey
- The innocents / Gipi
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- The Iraqi Constitution
- Me and you and everyone we know / Miranda July
- Wading toward home / Michael Lewis
- Are Iraqis optimistic? / The Lincoln Group
- Room no. 12 / Naguib Mahfouz
- Pirate station / Rick Moody
- The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day / Haruki Murakami
- False cognate / Jeff Parker
- Love it or leave it / David Rakoff
- Trauma on loan / Joe Sacco
- The new Mecca / George Saunders
- Peg / Sam Shaw
- Letting go of God? / Julia Sweeney
- Here is a lesson in creative writing / Kurt Vonnegut
- Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace.
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