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Obras por Matt Weiland

Associated Works

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (2015) — Editor, algumas edições950 exemplares
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (1945) — Introdução, algumas edições587 exemplares

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Nome canónico
Weiland, Matt
Data de nascimento
20th Century
Sexo
male
Ocupações
editor
Organizações
The Baffler

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Inspired by WPA American Guide Series
 
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msellberg | 10 outras críticas | Feb 18, 2024 |
Enraging & inspiring to see Thomas Frank et all call our current "disruption," weakening of labor organization, culture trust etc etc years before it was our present reality. The final essay, "Dark Age," is required reading.
 
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Popple_Vuh | 2 outras críticas | Oct 24, 2021 |
looks like fun for GR Group: Fans of Maps maybe

Low star rating is my personal opinion. I found these essays mostly instantly forgettable - the states I am familiar with, I barely recognized. Also, too many selections were personal memoirs - exploring a particular experience at a particular time in the past, and saying nothing about the character of the state itself. Of the others, the majority were less personal memoirs... iow, the authors of those tried to speak to some ongoing characteristic of the state. And some of the tidbits were just plain wrong, for example claiming Utah's Spiral Jetty is visible from space." Sure, from LEO with a powerful telescope... "visible from space" is meaningless, even applied to something much more imposing, for example the Great Wall (look it up).

I opine that the most interesting thing was in the back, the 30 lists, of, for example, Roller Coasters per Capita, Violent Crime Rate, and Incarceration Rate... lists 18, 19, and 20 respectively... and I wonder why the second two don't align more closely than they do...."
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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | 10 outras críticas | Jun 6, 2016 |
I loved this book. There are some fantastic essays in this collection---and a few bad ones---and the roll call of writers who participated in this anthology is impressive: S.E. Hinton, Sara Vowell, Tony Horowitz, George Packer, Kevin Brockmeier, Lydia Millet, William T. Vollman, Ha Jin, Rick Moody, Anthony Doerr, Dave Eggers, Jon Franzen, Jhumpa Lahiri and more than 35 others. Each author takes a different state and contributes a piece of writing about that state. Some of the writers were born in the state, some just visit or have spent time there. A great way to take a cross country trip without paying thousands of dollars.… (mais)
 
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BooksOn23rd | 10 outras críticas | Nov 25, 2015 |

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Dave Mulcahey Contributor, Introduction
Keith White Contributor, Introduction
Dave Eggers Contributor
Dagoberto Gilb Contributor
Randall Kenan Contributor
Lydia Millet Contributor
Andrea Lee Contributor
Susan Choi Contributor
Daphne Beal Contributor
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Rick Moody Contributor
Jonathan Franzen Contributor
Jhumpa Lahiri Contributor
Ann Patchett Contributor
Louise Erdrich Contributor
Anthony Bourdain Contributor
Sarah Vowell Contributor
S. E. Hinton Contributor
Alison Bechdel Contributor
Ha Jin Contributor
Myla Goldberg Contributor
Tony Horwitz Contributor
Carrie Brownstein Contributor
Susan Orlean Contributor
David Rakoff Contributor
Alexandra Fuller Contributor
Joe Sacco Contributor
Kevin Brockmeier Contributor
Ellery Washington Contributor
George Packer Contributor
Barry Hannah Contributor
Heidi Julavits Contributor
Benjamin Kunkel Contributor
Charles Bock Contributor
Maura Mahoney Contributor
Jennifer Brostrom Contributor
Julia Druskin Designer
Edward Castleton Contributor
Bill Boisvert Contributor
Greg Lane Introduction
Stephen Duncombe Contributor
Kim Phillips Contributor
Lewis Lapham Foreword
Jesse Marinoff Reyes Cover designer
Chris Holmes Contributor
Steve Albini Contributor
Tom Vanderbilt Contributor
Gary Groth Contributor
Aleksandar Hemon Contributor
Franklin Foer Afterword
Geoff Dyer Contributor
Henning Mankell Contributor
Nick Hornby Contributor

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5
Also by
3
Membros
1,072
Popularidade
#23,987
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
18
ISBN
15
Línguas
3

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