Wstęp
1. Ojcowie narracji (Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner)
2. Powieścią w pruderię (Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike)
3. Tropiciele niepokojów Ameryki (Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo)
4. Żydowska magia i humor (Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow)
5. Piętno bycia czarnym (Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, John Alfred Williams, Ernest Gaines, Alex Haley, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Maya Angelou, Colson Whitehead, Paul Beatty i inni)
6. Od SHAMANSTVA do fake newsów (John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Federman, Ronald Sukenick, Robert Coover, Paul Auster, Michael Cunningham, Mark Z. Danielewski)
7. Genialnie absurdalni (Thomas Pynchon, John Hawkes, William Gaddis, William S. Burroughs, David Foster Wallace, William T. Vollmann, Samuel R. Delany)
8. Magia autokreacji (John Irving, Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Jerzy Kosiński, Truman Capote, William Styron, Caroline 308 Knapp, James Ellroy, Joan Didion, Mary Karr, Anne Roiphe, Dave Eggers i inni)
9. Pomysły na śmierć prozy (Robert Coover, Thomas Beller, David Foster Wallace, Richard McGuire, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Jarett Kobek, Lauren Oyler, Franco Moretti, Tim Parks)
10. Amerykanin w podróży (John Steinbeck, Paul Theroux, Peter Matthiessen, Larry McMurtry, William Least Heat-Moon, Poe Ballantine, Eddy L. Harris, Bill Bryson, Robert Moor, Cheryl Strayed, Annie Dillard, Jon Krakauer i inni)
11. Gdzie ten buntownik? (Jerome David Salinger, James Jones, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Larry McMurtry, Harper Lee, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Ralph Ellison, William Melvin Kelley, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk i inni)
12. Mit Zachodu i agresja mężczyzn (Wallace Stegner, Kent Haruf, Barbara Kingsolver, Dorris Betts, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, Hubert Selby, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk)
13. Umiłowana i inne duchy Ameryki (Toni Morrison, Natashia Deón, Jesmyn Ward, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, Laura van den Berg, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer, Stephen King i inni)
14. Portrety rodziny w kryzysie (John Cheever, Jerome David Salinger, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Franzen, Ann Tyler, Elizabeth Strout, Jeannette Walls, J.D. Vance, Jeffrey Eugenides)
15. Nowe twarze imigrantów (Willa Cather, Anzia Yezierska, John Okada, Louis Chu, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Celeste Ng, Gish Jen, Bharati Mukherjee, Jumpha Lahiri, Nora Okja Keller, Chang-Rae Lee, R.O. Kwon, Le Ly Hayslip, Andrew X. Pham, Khaled Hosseini, Jamaica Kincaid, June Jordan, Junot Díaz, Oscar Hijuelos, Gary Shteyngart, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dinaw Mengestu i inni)
16. Gniew kobiet (Sylvia Plath, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, Erica Jong, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown, Sarah Waters, Akwaeke Emezi, Sarai Walker, Jennifer Egan, Andrea Dworkin, Ottessa Moshfegh, Brittney Cooper, Roxane Gay, Gillian Flynn, Jodi Picoult, Leni Zumas, Idra Novey, Kate Walbert, Catherine Lacey i inne)
17. Wojenne rozrachunki (William Eastlake, James Park Sloan, Michael Herr, Philip Caputo, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Ben Fountain, David Abrams, Kevin Powers, Elliot Ackerman, Khaled Hosseini, Lan Cao, Viet Thanh Nguyen i inni)
18. Powieści na nasze czasy. Nowy realizm, dystopie i ekoproza (Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Frederick Barthelme, Gary Shteyngart, Imbolo Mbue, Jean Hegland, Omar El Akkada, Paulo Bacigalupi, Lidia Yuknavitch, Zachary Mason, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lauren Groff, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen King, Richard Powers i inni)
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