All About HomeEditors Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey’s State by State features 50 essays written by 50 different authors, one for each state. As example, Rick Moody writes for Connecticut; Jhumpa Lahiri for Rhode Island; Ha Jin for Georgia; Jonathan Franzen for New York; Dave Eggers for Illinois; and Louise Erdrich for North Dakota.
This contemporary collection blends each writer's personal story with historical fact and was inspired by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s; part of F.D.R's New Deal.
