Overview

A riveting compilation of pieces which perfectly capture the cultural shift in America after September 11th, 2001. Featured writers include Rick Moody, Janet Fitch, and Caroline Knapp, as well as other non-professional writers. After September 11, 2001, emotions couldn't be clearly defined. There were no words strong enough to justify, avenge, explain, or express the sheer magnitude of this horrifyingly unique moment in history. In this remarkable anthology, compiled by Salon's award-winning editorial team, Rick Moody, Janet Fitch, Caroline Knapp, and Jeffrey Eugenides join many contemporary literary talents and reporters in giving a voice to the day that left a stunning roar of silence across America. Dread, fear, heroism, and dignity color these pages from eyewitness accounts of ordinary citizens turned rescue workers, to an escape from the World Trade Center, a report on everyday New Yorkers finding comfort in ""terror sex,"" and stories of miracles in the madness—like that of a blind man led by his seeing-eye dog down eighty-seven flights of stairs to safety. Afterwords also probes the aftermath of the attacks on the nation and the world's cultural, political, and social fabric through writing ranging from an in-depth interview with controversial social critic Noam Chomsky, to a female Pakistani-American journalist's meeting with a Taliban leader and his wives, and essays on how sheer horror gave way to heartening solidarity, macabre spectacle, and kitschy sentimentality. Immediate, raw, emotional, and empowering, this outstanding collection speaks brilliantly to the simple need to remember and comprehend what happened against that perfect blue sky on September 11, 2001. A portion of the royalties will be donated to the Twin Towers Fund and the Red Cross's Fund for Afghan Children.

Full Product Details

Author:   The Editors of Salon.com ,  David Talbot
Publisher:   Atria Books
Imprint:   Atria Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9780743456128

ISBN 10:   0743456122
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   03 September 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword ¦ David Talbot Ground Zero Running Against the Grain: A Survivor's Tale ¦ Ann Marsh A Season in Hell ¦ Christopher Ketcham The Dig ¦ James Croak Emotional Rescue ¦ William Harvey The Devil's Smoke ¦ Christopher Ketcham Nothing Will Be the Same Writing in the Dark ¦ Rick Moody No More High Heels ¦ Janet Fitch Consciousness on Overload ¦ Caroline Knapp Sex in a Time of Terror ¦ Cole Kazdin Requiem for a Stranger ¦ Jennifer Foote Sweeney U2 Elevate New York ¦ David Talbot King Kong's Home Away from Home ¦ Stephanie Zacharek The Enemy Deciphering Suicide ¦ Jeffrey Eugenides The Martyr in Waiting ¦ Asra Q. Nomani At Home with the Taliban ¦ Asra Q. Nomani Bin Laden's Creepy Charisma ¦ Joan Walsh Bin Laden's Diary ¦ Tom McNichol Afghanistan All Crazy on the Kunduz Front ¦ Phillip Robertson Panic at the Bangi Bridge ¦ Phillip Robertson The First Casualties ¦ Sean Kenny The Home Front Get a Grip, America! ¦ Laura Miller I Love Old Glory -- But Not the Creeps Who've Waved It All My Life ¦ King Kaufman Islam's Flawed Spokesmen ¦ Jake Tapper The Prime-Time Smearing of Sami Al-Arian ¦ Eric Boehlert Stand Beside Her ¦ King Kaufman Bringing the War Home ¦ Damien Cave A Memo to American Muslims ¦ M. A. Muqtedar Khan Drafted into the Cult of War ¦ Chris Colin Collateral Damage The Kitschification of September 11 ¦ Daniel Harris Dan Rather's Tears ¦ Stephanie Zacharek Confessions of a 9/11 Widow ¦ A. R. Torres Missing Women ¦ Lauren Sandler The Island of Mourning ¦ Terry Golway Not Exactly Fatherless ¦ Kevin J. Sweeney Start Making Sense America the Scapegoat ¦ Meera Atkinson The Bloody Jordan River Now Flows Through America ¦ Gary Kamiya America Is the Biggest Terrorist State: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky ¦ Suzy Hansen The Making of a Hawk ¦ David Talbot Author Biographies Acknowledgments

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David Talbot, author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, is the founder and CEO of Salon. He lives in San Francisco.

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