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FREE E-BOOK: Download A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing for FREE through Monday, July 18!
To celebrate this month’s release of Hurricane Street by Ron Kovic, from today until next Monday, July 18, you can download a copy of A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing — edited by T Cooper and Adam Mansbach and featuring a story by Kovic — for absolutely free!
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Praise for A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing:
“This is a ‘people’s history’ with tongue in cheek: delightfully funny, imaginative, but with a subtle undertone of seriousness. I enjoyed it immensely.”
—Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
“Cooper’s and Mansbach’s thesis is noble and intellectually rigorous: that ‘the hegemonic single-narrative of mainstream American history’ is essentially fiction in itself.”
—Publishers Weekly
Featuring original stories & artwork by: Daniel Alarcon, Amy Bloom, Kate Bornstein, Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Keith Knight, Ron Kovic, Paul La Farge, Felicia Luna Lemus, Adam Mansbach, Valerie Miner, Tommy O’Malley, Neal Pollack, David Rees, Sarah Schulman, Darin Strauss, and Benjamin Weissman.
History is distorted the moment it’s recorded—and in these politically dishonest times, challenging the stories we’re told is more important than ever. In this groundbreaking anthology of original fiction, a diverse group of America’s best writers takes on the task of creating counter-narratives to mainstream American history. Here are some of the moments and the people left out of the textbooks. Here is what else happened—on the margins of American life, and in between the lines of our history books.
A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing brings together an eclectic array of celebrated authors and cartoonists to create a patchwork, anecdotal history of this complicated country. From the Chinese discovery of America in 1426 to the new McCarthyism of a post–9/11 world, this collection recasts everything from the moon landing to the Lindbergh kidnapping, westward expansion to the sexual proclivities of Civil War officers. Riveting, inventive, and politically vital, this anthology picks up—and yanks on—America’s supposed commitment to seeking the truth . . . even if that truth is revealed in fiction.
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Posted: Jul 12, 2016
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