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November 10, 2006

Book Recommendation

Slow day.  Here's some recommended reading:

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
Edited by Dave Eggers

Why?  Here's the table of contents.  

Introduction by Matt Groening   xi

Best American Fake Headlines   3 from The Onion

Best American Daily Show Exchange on the Anniversary of Watergate   6
from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Best American Ringing Defeat of Religion Masquerading as Science   7
from Kitzmiller v. Dover

Best American Answers to the Question “What Do You Believe Is True Even
Though You Cannot Prove It?”   10
from The Edge Foundation

Best American Excerpt from a Military Blog   21
from A Soldier’s Thoughts

Best American Epigraph Wherein a Contemporary Writer Quotes a Great
Writer Who Died in 2005   28
from Saturday, by Ian McEwan

Best American First Sentences of Novels of 2005   29

Best American New Words and Phrases   37
from The Oxford Dictionary of English, Revised Second Edition

Best American New Band Names   40

Best American Things to Know about Chuck Norris   41
from Chuck Norris Facts

Best American Things to Know about Hoboes   43
from The Areas of My Expertise

Cat Bohannon. SHIPWRECK   57
from The Georgia Review

Judy Budnitz. NADIA   71
from One Story

Guy Delisle. PYONGYANG: A JOURNEY IN NORTH KOREA (excerpt)   94

Tom Downey. THE INSURGENT’ S TALE   108
from Rolling Stone

Gipi. THE INNOCENTS   124
fromWish YouWere Here

THE IRAQI CONSTITUTION   155
from TheWashington Post

Miranda July. ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW   181
from the original shooting script

Michael Lewis. WADING TOWARD HOME   193
from The New York Times Magazine

The Lincoln Group. ARE IRAQIS OPTIMISTIC?   217

Naguib Mahfouz. ROOM NO. 12   220
from Zoetrope: All-Story

Rick Moody. PIRATE STATION   231
from Gargoyle

Haruki Murakami. THE KIDNEY-SHAPED STONE THAT MOVES EVERY
DAY   235
from The New Yorker

Jeff Parker. FALSE COGNATE   253
from Hobart

David Rakoff. LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT   264
from Don’t Get Too Comfortable

Joe Sacco. TRAUMA ON LOAN   277
from The Guardian

George Saunders. THE NEW MECCA   286
from GQ

Sam Shaw. PEG   312
from Open City

Julia Sweeney. LETTING GO OF GOD?   327
from This American Life

Kurt Vonnegut. HERE IS A LESSON IN CREATIVE WRITING   348
from A Man Without a Country

David Foster Wallace. KENYON COMMENCEMENT SPEECH   355

Contributors’ Notes   365
Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2005   375

We read 42 pages of it before we remembered we were in a book store and needed to go eat.  Yeah, Chuck Norris woke us up.

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