The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

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 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture - hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some 20 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', 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths os 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 listener'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 Janice Shapiro Mona Simpson Leslie Stein Clifford Thompson David L. Ulin Chris Ware PLEASE NOTE: *When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the Audio.* RUNNING TIME ⇒ 8hrs. and 59mins. ©2019 Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. (P)2020 Audible, Inc. View Less