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LOVERS OF THE PRINTED BOOK, ARISE! BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LLLLLLLLL Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. AAAAAAAAAAAA UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU GIGIGIGIGIGIGIGIGIIGGGGNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNN ORORORORORORORRRRRRORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII In Bound to Last, an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD POPOPOPOPOPOPOPOO AAAAAAA CCCCCCCC defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays A A AA AAAAAAA TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT DDDDDDDDDDD celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear—not OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO •• ••••A A A AAA AAAAAA necessarily because of its contents, but because of its signi⇒ cance as a one- 00)00)00)00)))00)00)00)000000 LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL 0.0.0.00.0.00000 222222222 of-a-kind, irreplaceable object. Whether focusing on the circumstances AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ N N N N NNN behind how a particular book was acquired, or how it has become forever SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CACACACACACACACCC “bound up” with a speci⇒ c person, time, or place, each piece collected TTTTTTTTTTTTTT 5 5 5555(IN(IN(IN(IN(IN(IN(IN 9999999 here con⇒ rms—poignantly, delightfully, irrefutably—that every book 15.15.15.15.15.15111 $$$$$$$$$$ tells a story far beyond the one found within its pages. U.SU.SUSU.SU.SUSUS.. . . . . N N NN NN In addition to a foreword by Ray Bradbury, Bound to Last features 6 6 6 6 66IIIII original contributions by: 2121212121212------- 9999999 111111 8888888 66666666------ 00000000 Chris Abani, Rabih Alameddine, Anthony Doerr, Louis Ferrante, Nick 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-33333333333 Flynn, Karen Joy Fowler, Julia Glass, Karen Green, David Hajdu, 787878787878787877777--------- 99999999999 Terrence Holt, Jim Knipfel, Shahriar Mandanipour, Sarah Manguso, Sean Manning, Joyce Maynard, Philipp Meyer, Jonathan Miles, Sigrid Nunez, Ed Park, Victoria Patterson, Francine Prose, Michael Ruhlman, Elissa M D Schappell, Christine Schutt, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, J. Courtney D Sullivan, Anthony Swofford, Danielle Trussoni, and Xu Xiaobin A L I M Sean Manning is the author of The Things That Need Doing: A Memoir # 1 and editor of the non⇒ ction anthologies Top of the Order, The Show I’ll SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 10 eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 89 Never Forget, and Rock and Roll Cage Match. 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Copyright © 2006 by Amy Hempel. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address Da Capo Press, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142. Designed by Brent Wilcox Set in 11.25 point Minion Pro by the Perseus Books Group Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bound to last : 30 writers on their most cherished book / edited by Sean Manning ; foreword by Ray Bradbury. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-306-81921-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Authors, American—Books and reading. 2. Authors— Books and reading. I. Manning, Sean. Z1039.A87B68 2010 028'.9—dc22 2010026247 Published by Da Capo Press A Member of the Perseus Books Group www.dacapopress.com Da Capo Press books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the U.S. by corporations, institutions, and other organizations. For more information, please contact the Special Markets Department at the Perseus Books Group, 2300 Chestnut Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19103, or call (800) 810-4145, ext. 5000, or e-mail [email protected]. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0306819216-Manning_Layout 1 8/10/10 3:57 PM Page v CONTENTS FOREWORD Ray Bradbury, ix INTRODUCTION Sean Manning, xiii The Crying of Lot 49 and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Jim Shepard 1 Andersen’s Fairy Tales Francine Prose 8 The Stranger Anthony Swofford 15 Speak, Memory Danielle Trussoni 20 The Shadow of the Sun Nick Flynn 25 The Bible Joyce Maynard 32 Les Misérables Louis Ferrante 41 - v- 0306819216-Manning_Layout 1 8/10/10 3:57 PM Page vi Contents Naked Lunch Elissa Schappell 46 The Story and Its Writer Anthony Doerr 54 Invisible Man David Hajdu 59 Roar and More Julia Glass 65 Das Kapital Shahriar Mandanipour 79 The Viking Portable Dorothy Parker J. Courtney Sullivan 84 The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Eighth Edition Terrence Holt 92 For Whom the Bell Tolls Philipp Meyer 101 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Karen Green 108 Mason & Dixon Jim Knipfel 115 Emily Dickinson (Literature and Life) Xu Xiaobin 124 Dungeon Masters Guide Ed Park 129 Sula Susan Straight 140 - vi- 0306819216-Manning_Layout 1 8/10/10 3:57 PM Page vii Contents Ulysses Sean Manning 149 Believe It or Not! Sarah Manguso 156 William Trevor: The Collected Stories Victoria Patterson 163 The Once and Future King Karen Joy Fowler 168 The Carpetbaggers Rabih Alameddine 175 The New Professional Chef, Fifth Edition Michael Ruhlman 180 Mythology Sigrid Nunez 186 Another Country Chris Abani 192 Heart’s Needle Christine Schutt 200 Ship of Fools Jonathan Miles 207 CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES, 217 CONTRIBUTORS’ CREDITS, 223 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 225 - vii- 0306819216-Manning_Layout 1 8/10/10 3:57 PM Page viii 0306819216-Manning_Layout 1 8/10/10 3:57 PM Page ix FOREWORD Ray Bradbury When I was nine years old I had my wonderful Aunt Neva living above me in our house in Waukegan, Illinois. She was my con- stant companion. Being only eleven years older than myself, she was more a sister than an aunt. She surrounded me with books and miniature theaters that she built and paintings that she painted. Neva allowed me to prowl around her studio where she designed and made costumes and dresses, and where she worked in clay or talked mad talk and encouraged me to do the same. Halloween was greater than July 4th, almost greater than Christmas on our block, mainly because of Neva. She would dress me up as a witch, putting wax on my nose to make it look big and crooked, and pour candle-tallow on my fingers to turn them into witch’s hands, and hide me in basements or attics to scare friends she brought in. Every October we’d drive far out in the farm country and bring home a Tin Lizzie full of pumpkins and cornshooks from which to decorate. Neva’s craziness about October infected me. A story like my “Homecoming” derives mainly from the way Neva looked at October and its ghosts and haunts. Some Halloweens she put out all the lights in the big house and made us file in one at a time in our spook costumes, follow- ing a long ceiling-hung guideline of kite string through the - ix-
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