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Foreword / Johnathan Santlofer -- Introduction / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Speak! Speak! / Julia Alvarez -- Oh, Canada / Russell Banks -- Blackout / Jane Kent -- The party / Bliss Broyard -- Compline / Stephen, L. Carter -- Scenes from late paradise: stupidity ; Late America / Eric Fischl -- New blank document / Lee Child -- Tell her anyway / Bridget Hawkins -- Veterans Day / Mary Higgins Clark -- Atonement / Michael Cunningham -- Intersections / Mark Di Ionno -- The third twin / Anna Dunn -- Politics / Roz Chast -- Balancing acts / Louise Erdrich -- The Miss April Houses / Angela Flournoy -- The world is yours, the world is mine ; The many faces of Islam / Shahzia Sikander -- Fires / Elizabeth Frank -- Hate for sale / Neil Gaiman -- Unaccountable / Philip Gourevitch -- White baby / James Hannaham -- Your sacred American rights bingo / Mimi Pond -- In the trees / Alice Hoffman -- Getting somewhere / Susan Isaacs -- Guantánamo, ERF team: making prisoner in the eye ; Guantánamo, ERF team: waterboarding prisoner / Susan Crile -- Mr. Crime and punishment and war and peace / Gish Jen -- Finally I am American at heart / Ha Jin -- Arlington street / Lily King -- The harlot and the murderer: Sonia's story / Sheila Kohler -- Starry starry night ; Trade canoe: forty days and forty nights / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith -- "People are people" / Elinor Lipman -- The trout fisherman / Joyce Maynard -- Listen / Susan Minot -- Between storms / Walter Mosley -- Our cuntry needs you ; Tic-tac-toe ; Deep frost / Marilyn Minter -- "Good news!" / Joyce Carol Oates -- Island of tears ... ; Island of hope! ; Ghost of Ellis Island / Art Spiegelman -- Safety first / Sara Paretsky -- Look away ; Loving in black & white / Beverly McIver -- Bystanders (April 2003) / Tom Piazza -- Lucky girl / Heidi Pitlor -- If they come in the morning / S.J. Rozan -- Top step / Richard Russo -- The ugliest American alphabet / Eric Orner -- Hope / Johnathan Santlofer -- The walk / Elizabeth Strout -- Vote Hillary / Deborah Kass -- Stop & shop / Paul Theroux -- Little house on the prairie holding company LLC / David Storey -- The way we read now / Justin Torres -- Don't despair / Alice Walker -- Learning American values / Edmund White -- Letter from Anthony D. Romero -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions.
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"-- Provided by publisher.
This provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty authors, celebrating the fundamental ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democracy. Included are pages of daring, full-color and black-and-white art, that support our country's founding premise as the land of the free. Royalties from the book will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: 374 pages, 52 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781501179600
1501179608
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Santlofer, Jonathan, 1946-
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-
Alvarez, Julia,
Banks, Russell, 1940-2023.
Kent, J. A., 1952-
Broyard, Bliss,
Carter, Stephen L., 1954-
Fischl, Eric, 1948-
Child, Lee,
Hawkins, Bridget, 1996-
Clark, Mary Higgins,
Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
Di Ionno, Mark,
Dunn, Anna,
Chast, Roz,
Erdrich, Louise,
Flournoy, Angela,
Sikander, Shahzia, 1969-
Frank, Elizabeth, 1945-
Gaiman, Neil,
Gourevitch, Philip, 1961-
Hannaham, James,
Pond, Mimi,
Hoffman, Alice,
Isaacs, Susan, 1943-
Crile, Susan, 1942-
Jen, Gish,
Jin, Ha, 1956-
King, Lily,
Kohler, Sheila,
Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940-
Lipman, Elinor,
Maynard, Joyce, 1953-
Minot, Susan,
Mosley, Walter,
Minter, Marilyn, 1948-
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Spiegelman, Art,
Paretsky, Sara,
McIver, Beverly,
Piazza, Tom, 1955-
Pitlor, Heidi,
Rozan, S. J.,
Russo, Richard, 1949-
Orner, Eric,
Strout, Elizabeth,
Kass, Deborah, 1952-
Theroux, Paul,
Storey, David, 1954-
Torres, Justin, 1980-
Walker, Alice, 1944-
White, Edmund, 1940-
SUBJECTS
Short stories, American.
American fiction -- 21st century.