Hogs wild : selected reporting pieces

Summary: "Part muckraker, part adventurer and part raconteur, the author, in a humorous collection of stories, collects his best essays and reportage from the past 10 years that beholds, captures and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience. By the author of Travels in Siberia."--

Record details

ISBN: 0374298521
ISBN: 9780374298524
Physical Description: 375 pages ; 22 cm
print
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

By the road -- Hungry minds -- The one that got away -- Word -- Desert hideaway -- Dearly disconnected -- Bus ride -- Back to the harbor -- A lonesome death remembered -- Form and fungus -- The unsettling legacy of General Shrapnel -- Hogs wild -- On impact -- Any drop to drink -- Fish out of water -- Passengers -- The rap -- The march of the Strandbeests -- The toll: Sandy and the future -- Hidden city -- The antidote -- The cabaret beat -- Blue bloods

Ownership and Custodial History:

BPL: Given in the memory of the Hon. Allan Woodcock, Jr. by Robert and Donna Peterson.