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Introduction | p. xi |
Best American Fake Headlines | p. 3 |
from The Onion | |
Best American Daily Show Exchange on the Anniversary of Watergate | p. 6 |
from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | |
Best American Ringing Defeat of Religion Masquerading as Science | p. 7 |
from Kitzmiller v. Dover | |
Best American Answers to the Question "What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?" | p. 10 |
from The Edge Foundation | |
Best American Excerpt from a Military Blog | p. 21 |
from A Soldier's Thoughts | |
Best American Epigraph Wherein a Contemporary Writer Quotes a Great Writer Who Died in 2005 | p. 28 |
from Saturday | |
Best American First Sentences of Novels of 2005 | p. 29 |
Best American New Words and Phrases | p. 37 |
from The Oxford Dictionary of English, Revised Second Edition | |
Best American New Band Names | p. 40 |
Best American Things to Know about Chuck Norris | p. 41 |
from Chuck Norris Facts | |
Best American Things to Know about Hoboes | p. 43 |
from The Areas of My Expertise | |
Shipwreck | p. 57 |
from The Georgia Review | |
Nadia | p. 71 |
from One Story | |
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Excerpt) | p. 94 |
The Insurgent's Tale | p. 108 |
from Rolling Stone | |
The Innocents | p. 124 |
from Wish You Were Here | |
The Iraqi Constitution | p. 155 |
from The Washington Post | |
Me and You and Everyone We Know | p. 181 |
from the original shooting script | |
Wading Toward Home | p. 193 |
from The New York Times Magazine | |
Are Iraqis Optimistic? | p. 217 |
Room No. 12 | p. 220 |
from Zoetrope: All-Story | |
Pirate Station | p. 231 |
from Gargoyle | |
The Kidney-Shaped Stone that Moves Every Day | p. 235 |
from The New Yorker | |
False Cognate | p. 253 |
from Hobart | |
Love It or Leave It | p. 264 |
from Don't Get Too Comfortable | |
Trauma on Loan | p. 277 |
from The Guardian | |
The New Mecca | p. 286 |
from GQ | |
Peg | p. 312 |
from Open City | |
Letting Go of God? | p. 327 |
from This American Life | |
Here is a Lesson in Creative Writing | p. 348 |
from A Man Without a Country | |
Kenyon Commencement Speech | p. 355 |
Contributors' Notes | p. 365 |
Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2005 | p. 375 |
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