The Braindead Megaphone

The Braindead Megaphone is George Saunders’s first full-length essay collection, published in 2007; it is 272 pages long. The collection has many essays that appeared in The New Yorker and GQ.

Contents

 * "The Braindead Megaphone"
 * "The New Mecca" (originally published in GQ)
 * "Thank You, Esther Forbes"
 * "A Survey of the Literature" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2003)
 * "Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra"
 * "A Brief Study of the British"
 * "Nostalgia" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
 * "Ask the Optimist!" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
 * "Proclamation," (originally published in The New Yorker, 2006)
 * "Woof: A Plea of Sorts"
 * "The Great Divider"
 * "Thought Experiment" (originally published as "Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment" in Take My Advice, edited by James L. Harmon, 2002)
 * "The Perfect Gerbil: Reading Barthelme's 'The School'"
 * "The United States of Huck: Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 2001.)
 * "Buddha Boy" (originally published as "The Incredible Buddha Boy," GQ, 2007).
 * "Manifesto: A Press Release from PRKA" (originally published on Slate.com, 2004).