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Language
  
English

Pages
  
272 p.

Originally published
  
4 September 2007

Publisher
  
Riverhead Books

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Publication date
  
September 4, 2007

ISBN
  
1-59448-256-X

Author
  
George Saunders

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (Trade Paperback)

Similar
  
George Saunders books, Other books

The Braindead Megaphone is George Saunders’s first full-length essay collection, published in 2007; it is 272 pages long. The collection has many essays that appeared in The New Yorker and GQ.

Contents

  • "The Braindead Megaphone"
  • "The New Mecca" (originally published in GQ)
  • "Thank You, Esther Forbes"
  • "A Survey of the Literature" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2003)
  • "Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra"
  • "A Brief Study of the British"
  • "Nostalgia" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
  • "Ask the Optimist!" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
  • "Proclamation," (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
  • "Woof: A Plea of Sorts"
  • "The Great Divider"
  • "Thought Experiment" (originally published as "Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment" in Take My Advice, edited by James L. Harmon, 2002)
  • "The Perfect Gerbil: Reading Barthelme's 'The School'"
  • "The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 2001.)
  • "Buddha Boy" (originally published as "The Incredible Buddha Boy," GQ, 2007).
  • "Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA" (originally published on Slate.com, 2004).

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