Read hard - Julavits, Heidi; Park, Ed 1970- ([Place of publication not identified] Believer Books, 2009)
Introduction / by Heidi Julavits -- No man's land / by Eula Biss -- Gidget on the couch / by Peter Lunenfeld -- Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny / by Ed Park -- How to be a Christian artist / by Rick Moody -- "And suppress the unpleasant things" / by William T. Vollmann -- The bad mormon / by Ben Ehrenreich -- Why look at fish? / by Ginger Strand -- "Sir, permission to go AWOL from the interesting, sir!" / by Tom Bissell -- Transmissions from Camp Trans / by Michelle Tea -- In praise of termites / by Franklin Bruno -- A brief take on genetic screening / by Richard Powers -- The Sinatra doctrine / by Rich Cohen -- How far can you press a poet? / by David Orr -- Symbolism and cynicism / by Tayari Jones -- Let us now kill white elephants / by Howard Hampton -- Destroy all monsters / by Paul La Farge -- Waiting for the bad thing / by Sam Lipstye -- Whirl / by Scott Eden -- The score / by Stephen Elliott -- The American vicarious / by Jonathan Lethem -- Transit Byzantium / by Joe Hagan.
"These pieces appeared between March 2003 and June 2009 in the Believer magazine"--T.p. verso.
Keywords: American essays -- 21st century