In these refreshingly bold, creative, and incisive essays, John D'Agata journeys the endless corridors of American’s myriad halls of fame and faithfully reports on what he finds there. In a voice all his own, he brilliantly maps his terrain in lists, collage, and ludic narratives. From Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society, from the brightest light in Vegas to the outsider artist Henry Darger, D'Agata’s obsessions are as American as they are contemporary.

Contents

Round Trip

Martha Graham, Audio Description Of

Flat Earth Map: An Essay

Hall of Fame: An Essay About the Ways in Which We Matter

Notes toward the making of a whole human being …

Collage History of Art, by Henry Darger

And There Was Evening and There Was Morning

Notes