Read hard
By: edited by Ed Park and Heidi Julavits ; [all illustrations by Tony Millionaire]
Publisher: Believer Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [San Francisco, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781934781395
Other titles: Five years of great writing from the Believer; Believer (San Francisco, Calif.)
Notes: "These pieces appeared between March 2003 and June 2009 in the Believer magazine"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Heidi Julavits; title: No man's land / by Eula Biss; title: Gidget on the couch / by Peter Lunenfeld; title: Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny / by Ed Park; title: How to be a Christian artist / by Rick Moody; title: "And suppress the unpleasant things" / by William T. Vollmann; title: The bad mormon / by Ben Ehrenreich; title: Why look at fish? / by Ginger Strand; title: "Sir, permission to go AWOL from the interesting, sir!" / by Tom Bissell; title: Transmissions from Camp Trans /; title: by Michelle Tea -- In praise of termites / by Franklin Bruno -- A brief take on genetic screening / by Richard Powers -- The Sinatra doctrine / by Rich Cohen -- How far can you press a poet?  / by David Orr -- Symbolism and cynicism / by Tayari Jones -- Let us now kill white elephants / by Howard Hampton -- Destroy all monsters / by Paul La Farge -- Waiting for the bad thing / by Sam Lipstye -- Whirl / by Scott Eden -- The score / by Stephen Elliott -- The American vicarious / by Jonathan Lethem -- Transit Byzantium / by Joe Hagan.