The Peanuts Papers
Subtitle: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
Publisher: The Library of America; Library of America
Published: 2019
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781598536164
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Part I: The Big Picture; title: "Good Griefs" by Adam Gopnik; title: "Yesterday Will Get Better" by Ivan Brunetti; title: "Strip Mind" by George Saunders; title: "It's Once Upon a Time, Charlie Brown!" by Bruce Handy; title: "A Space for Thinking" by Nicole Rudick; title: "Why I Love Peanuts" by Joe Queenan; title: "Nonsense!" by Peter D. Kramer; title: "Percy Crosby and Skippy" by David Hadju; title: "On Krazy Kat and Peanuts" by Umberto Eco; title: "What Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Peanuts Mean to Me" by Kevin Powell; title: "Charlie Brown, Spider-Man, Me, and You" by Ira Glass; title: "Drawing Empathy: A Cartoonist's-Eye View" by Chris Ware; title: Part II: Characters; title: "To the Doghouse" by Ann Patchett; title: "There's Something Peculiar About Lying in a Dark Room. You Can't See Anything." by Chuck Klosterman; title: "Je suis Sally Brown" by Elissa Schappell; title: "Triangle with Piano" by Mona Simpson; title: "On Unhappiness, Friendship, and Charlie Brown" by Clifford Thompson; title: "The Exemplary Narcissism of Snoopy" by Sarah Boxer; title: Part III: Two Poems; title: "A Childhood in Four Acts" by Jill Bialosky; title: "Grief" by Jonathan Lethem; title: Part IV: Off the Page; title: "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" by Rick Moody; title: "The Gospel According to Linus [I]" by Rich Cohen; title: "How Innocence Became Cool" by Gerald Early; title: Part V: True Stories; title: "You're Weird, Sir" by Jennifer Finney Boylan; title: "Bar Nuts" by Leslie Stein; title: "Two Ponies" by Jonathan Franzen; title: "Lucy Can't See" by Lisa Birnbach; title: "The History of the Twentieth Century, Four Panels at a Time" by David Kamp; title: "Good Grief" by Janice Shapiro; title: "Duck Boy" by Maxine Hong Kingston; title: "Happiness Is Fleeting" by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell; title: "The Gospel According to Linus [II]" by David L. Ulin; title: "Pilgrimage" by Seth; title: Contributors; title: Sources and Acknowledgements