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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
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The best American nonrequired reading 2006
"It's a big world, and I really like it. In all things, we are the victims of the Misconception from Afar. There is the idea of a city, and the city itself, too great to be held in the mind. And it is in this gap between the conceptual and the real that aggression begins. No place works any differently than any other place, really, beyond mere details. The universal human laws---need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain-- are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. What a powerful thing to know: that one's own desires are mappable onto strangers, that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in the Other.
Just before I doze off, I counsel myself grandiosely: Fuck concepts. Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen."
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