The Peanuts papers : writers and cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the gang, and the meaning of life

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"A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists. Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture--hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with million...

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ISBN:

9781598536164
1598536168

Description:

xiv, 338 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Contents:

I. THE BIG PICTURE
Good Griefs / Adam Gopnik
Yesterday Will Get Better/ Ivan Brunetti
Strip Mind / George Saunders
It's Once Upon a Time, Charlie Brown! / Bruce Handy
A Space for Thinking / Nicole Rudick
Why I Love Peanuts/ Joe Queenan
Nonsense! / Peter D. Kramer
Percy Crosby and Skippy / David Hajdu
On Krazy Kat and Peanuts / Umberto Eco
What Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Peanuts Mean to Me / Kevin Powell
Charlie Brown, Spider-Man, Me, and You / Ira Glass
Drawing Empathy: A Cartoonist's-Eye View / Chris Ware
II. CHARACTERS
To the Doghouse / Ann Patchett
There's Something Peculiar About Lying in a Dark Room. You Can't See Anything / Chuck Klosterman
Je suis Sally Brown / Elissa Schappell
Triangle with Piano / Mona Simpson
On Unhappiness, Friendship, and Charlie Brown / Clifford Thompson
The Exemplary Narcissism of Snoopy / Sarah Boxer
III. TWO POEMS
A Childhood in Four Acts / Jill Bialosky
Grief / Jonathan Lethem
IV. OFF THE PAGE
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving / Rick Moody
The Gospel According to Linus [I] / Rich Cohen
How Innocence Became Cool / Gerald Early
V. TRUE STORIES
You're Weird, Sir / Jennifer Finney Boylan
Bar Nuts / Leslie Stein
Two Ponies / Jonathan Franzen
Lucy Can't See/ Lisa Birnbach
The History of the Twentieth Century, Four Panels at Time / David Kamp
Good Grief / Janice Shapiro
Duck Boy / Maxine Hong Kingston
Happiness Is Fleeting / Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
The Gospel According to Linus [II] / David L. Uli
Pilgrimage / Seth

LCCN:

2019938570

Control Number:

2882276

Other Authors:

Blauner, Andrew, editor

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