This is an excellent read! North America is a vast place and the 50 states are very different so the choice to have 50 different people write about the states works very well. Each chapter starts with statistics about the individual state which is extremely interesting, ranging from population to...
Fifty essays by notable writers on each of the fifty states. Especially worthwhile due to its impressive line-up of contributors: Dave Eggers on Illinois, Ann Patchett on Tennessee, Jonathan Franzen on New York, Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island, Sara Vowell on Montana, Anthony Bourdain on New Je...