STATE BY STATE: A Panoramic Portrait of America

(NYTBR) - ... Taking as their inspiration the state guides published by the Federal Writers’ Project during and shortly after the Great Depression, Weiland and Wilsey assembled 50 of America’s finest writers and asked them to contribute essays on the same general theme: why my state is special — or not. The result is a funny, moving, rousing collection, greater than the sum of its excellent parts, a convention of literary super­delegates, each one boisterously nominating his or her piece of the Republic. Continued