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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
I. The Big Picture
ADAM GOPNIK / Good Griefs
IVAN BRUNETTI / Yesterday Will Get Better
GEORGE SAUNDERS / Strip Mind
BRUCE HANDY / It’s Once Upon a Time, Charlie Brown!
NICOLE RUDICK / A Space for Thinking
JOE QUEENAN / Why I Love Peanuts
PETER D. KRAMER / Nonsense!
DAVID HAJDU / Percy Crosby and Skippy
UMBERTO ECO / On Krazy Kat and Peanuts
KEVIN POWELL / What Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Peanuts Mean to Me
IRA GLASS / Charlie Brown, Spider-Man,Me, and You
CHRIS WARE / Drawing Empathy: A Cartoonist’s-Eye View
II. Characters
ANN PATCHETT / To the Doghouse
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN / There’s Something Peculiar About Lying in a Dark Room. You Can’t See Anything
ELISSA SCHAPPELL / Je suis Sally Brown
MONA SIMPSON / Triangle with Piano
CLIFFORD THOMPSON / On Unhappiness, Friendship, and Charlie Brown
SARAH BOXER / The Exemplary Narcissism of Snoopy
III. Two Poems
JILL BIALOSKY / A Childhood in Four Acts
JONATHAN LETHEM / Grief
IV. Off the Page
RICK MOODY / A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
RICH COHEN / The Gospel According to Linus [I]
GERALD EARLY / How Innocence Became Cool
V. True Stories
JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN / You’re Weird, Sir
LESLIE STEIN / Bar Nuts
JONATHAN FRANZEN / Two Ponies
LISA BIRNBACH / Lucy Can’t See
DAVID KAMP / The History of the Twentieth Century, Four Panels at a Time
JANICE SHAPIRO / Good Grief
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON / Duck Boy
HILARY FITZGERALD CAMPBELL / Happiness Is Fleeting
DAVID L. ULIN / The Gospel According to Linus [II]
SETH / Pilgrimage
Contributors
Sources and Acknowledgments
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