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THE PEANUTS PAPERS

Andrew Blauner

Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

Featuring contributions by: Jill Bialosky, Lisa Birnbach, Sarah Boxer, Ivan Brunetti, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Rich Cohen, Gerald Early, Umberto Eco, Jonathan Franzen, Ira Glass, Adam Gopnik, David Hajdu, Bruce Handy, David Kamp, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chuck Klosterman, Peter D. Kramer, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Ann Patchett, Kevin Powell, Joe Queenan, Nicole Rudick, George Saunders, Elissa Schappell, Seth, Janice Shapiro, Mona Simpson, Leslie Stein, Clifford Thompson, David L. Ulin, Chris Ware and more

A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.

Edited by Andrew Blauner.

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Book Published 2019-10-01 by The Library of America

Comments

Italy: La nave di Teseo; China (complex characters): China Times;

Top-flight writers contemplate Peanuts,' a comic strip that's especially inviting to a wealth of interpretations .Essential reading for Peanuts' fans and an appealing collection of personal writing for any reader. --Kirkus Reviews Top-flight writers contemplate Peanuts,' a comic strip that's especially inviting to a wealth of interpretations .Essential reading for Peanuts' fans and an appealing collection of personal writing for any reader. --Kirkus Reviews Read more...

If you could conjure some new secular Bible fashioned from popular culture, is there any doubt that Peanuts would be in it? Charles Schulz's beloved comic strip was shrewd but always down to earth, simple but sophisticated, generous but trenchant, and anchored in a handful of characters yet somehow universal. The product of a particular moment in time, Peanuts today lives timelessly outside it--forever funny and humane. Now, in The Peanuts Papers,' writers of every age and stripe bring their own memories and imaginations to this classic strip--and in so doing so, show just how much they were inspired by it. --Cullen Murphy, author of "Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe"

A heartwarming tribute to Schulz's inimitable strip and the influence it had on its everyday audience. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Deeply moving and often very funny. --Jeff Kinney, author of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid

[...] This is a heartwarming tribute to Schulz's inimitable strip and the influence it had on its everyday audience. -- Publisher's Weekly, starred review Read more...

Good grief! Who knew that a mere (if admittedly great) comic strip, could inspire such great writing? Charles Schulz's unforgettable characters -- Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Linus and Schroeder, among others --have brought out profound personal musings and keen cultural insights in a group of talented writers, including Bruce Handy, Adam Gopnik, and Ann Patchett. Anyone reading these essays will immediately be brought back to the emotional gore' of childhood, as Handy puts it, and to that yawning suburban landscape where Charlie Brown is always aspiring and always falling short, Lucy is always crabby, Snoopy is always dreaming up undog-like scenarios, Linus is an inveterate egghead on a par with Lionel Trilling, and Schroeder is channeling Beethoven. The Peanuts Papers is an anthology unlike any other, to be treasured and earmarked. And for God's sake, keep it out of the rain. --Daphne Merkin

Reading this book was like finding a lost album of childhood photographs. It's an unexpected powerhouse of a book, and if 'Peanuts' was part of your childhood, it will knock you out. --Caitlin Flanagan