Inspired by Depression-era travel guides, an anthology of essays on each of the fifty states, plus Washington, D.C., by some of America's finest writers. State by Stateis a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation.
- Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey
- Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1
- Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota
- Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York's publicist... and personal attorney... and historian... and geologist
- John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a "Massachusettsean"
- Edward P. Jones makes the case: D.C. should be a state!
- Jhumpa Lahiri declares her reckless love for the Rhode Island coast
- Rich Moody explores the dark heart of Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, exit by exit
- Ann Patchett makes a pilgrimage to the Civil War site at Shiloh, Tennessee
- William T. Vollman visits a San Francisco S&M club
- And many more
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Matt Weiland is the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review. He has been an editor at Granta, The Baffler and The New Press, and he oversaw a documentary radio unit at NPR. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Observer, The Nation and The New Republic. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.