State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America

Authors: Wilsey, Sean & Weiland, Matt
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: LCO010000, SOC026000, HIS036010, TRV025110
ISBN: 9780062043573, Related ISBNs: 0062043579, 9780061470912, 9780062043573
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 608,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

See America with 50 of Our Finest, Funniest, and Foremost Writers Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey

Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1

Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota

Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York's publicist...and personal attorney...and historian...and geologist

John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a "Massachusettsean"

Edward P. Jones makes the case: D.C. should be a state!

Jhumpa Lahiri declares her reckless love for the Rhode Island coast

Rick Moody explores the dark heart of Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, exit by exit

Ann Patchett makes a pilgrimage to the Civil War site at Shiloh, Tennessee

William T. Vollmann visits a San Francisco S&M club and Many More!

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