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State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America is a collection of pieces about the United States, with one essay on each of the fifty states. It was conceived of and edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey.
- Sean Wilsey, Matt Weiland
- 2008
Dagoberto Gilb (“The Flowers”) goes to the Iowa cornfields to report the experiences of Mexican immigrants. Edward P. Jones (“The Known World”) makes a persuasive case for D.C. statehood. Joshua Clark (“Heart Like Water”) goes ghost hunting in New Orleans.
Oct 11, 2008 · ONG after the journey ends, certain images refuse to fade. In Iowa, Dagoberto Gilb paints a field of American dreams — thick rows of corn from which migrant workers, two by two, slowly emerge ...
Sep 16, 2008 · Inspired by the state guides produced by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s, Weiland and Wilsey set out to mimic that behemoth venture on a much smaller scale, giving 51 (Washington, D.C. rightly gets a chapter) different writers the opportunity to describe their personal experiences of a particular state. The first thing that you need to ...
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- Hardcover
- Matt Weiland
Nov 1, 2009 · Synopsis. Editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have turned to 50 of the finest, funniest, and foremost writers in America to create a state by state celebration of their country: Jonathan Franzen on New York, Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island - the list goes on.
Dec 12, 2008 · Jonathan Franzen's interview with New York State herself, by way of her PA, lawyers and geologists, was wry and cutting and wistful. California got the almost hallucinatory epic treatment from...
Sep 16, 2008 · 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...
