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 Over the span of fifty years Charles M.
Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular
culture-hilarious poignant inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared the
characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans their
beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness
friendship disappointment childhood and life itself. In The Peanuts Papers thirty-three
writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz's deceptively simple comic its
impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture. These enchanting affecting and
often quite personal essays show just how much Peanuts means to its many admirers-and the ways
it invites us to ponder in the words of Sarah Boxer how to survive and still be a decent
human being in an often bewildering world. Featuring essays memoirs poems and two original
comic strips here is the ultimate reader's companion for every Peanuts fan. Featuring: Jill
Bialosky Lisa Birnbach Sarah Boxer Jennifer Finney Boylan Ivan Brunetti Hilary Fitzgerald
Campbell 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
