In the spirit of our founding father, Mark Twain, County Highway is honoring the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by gathering a raft of some of America’s finest essayists, humorists, fiction writers, and other prose stylists and wise-asses to remind us of what makes America great. The answers, some deadpan, and others only mildly tongue-in-cheek, are sure to be the most amusing and least-tiresome tributes to a nation that occasionally commemorates the past by staging gaudy parades or engaging in bouts of solemn introspection but thrives most of the time on making new stuff. Our list includes:
The Acme Corporation — Ian Frazier
Beep Boop — Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
Cocktails — Lee Clay Johnson
Drag Racing — Chandler Fritz
Elvis — Liel Leibovitz
Five-Piece Bands — David Gates
The Grange — Krist Novoselic
Grilled Cheese — Gus O’Connor
Hippies — Noah Rawlings
Jukeboxes — Drew Bratcher
Kentucky Derby — J.D. Daniels
Lobster Rolls — Clementine James Ford
Marilyn Monroe — Meaghan Garvey
Post-It Notes — Anne Fadiman
Quarter Horses — Tama Janowitz
Raymond Carver — Gary Fisketjon
Steelhead Trout — Wade Graham
Surfing — Ryan Baesemann
Taylor Pork Roll — Kurt Loder
Tupac — Jeff Weiss
VapoRub —Amanda Fortini
Waffle House — Walter Kirn
Zippo Lighters — David Samuels
Plus Bison, the Internet, Oreos, X-Ray Vision, and 223 more!
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Pre-order today, copies will begin shipping to readers in early July.