Details on the Best Books on 9/11 The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature, by E. Ann Kaplan, Rutgers University Press, 2005 Representing 9/11: trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television. Petrovic, Paul, 1982-. Lanham. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4422-5267-7. OCLC 904715499. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) CS1 maint: others ( link) The 20 best 9/11 books". The Guardian. September 2, 2011. Archived from the original on December 9, 2016 . Retrieved December 12, 2016. Five must-read books about 9/11 and its legacy". www.today.com. September 8, 2011. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved January 5, 2015.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 2005 novel by American author Jonathan Safran Foer, which led to the film adaptation Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011 film) In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World, 2015, edited by Douglas Lain Mathé, Sylvie; Vallas, Sophie (2014). European perspectives on the literature of 9/11. Paris: Michel Houdiard Editeur. ISBN 9782356921123. OCLC 878664251. Twenty years have now passed since the bright-morning-turned-unholy-nightmare that forever changed the world (spawning, for just one example, America’s longest war, which we hope ended last week). Those who weren’t direct witnesses or survivors may not think about that day as much as we once did. That’s one reason why we read: to remember the wound and the shift, to stay close to humanity at its most elemental when so many fresh distractions and anxieties want to pull us away.

The Day the World Came to Town is the book about Gander on 9/11 that inspired the Broadway musical Come from Away . It’s a minute-by-minute breakdown of the day of 9/11 told completely through the dialogue of five hundredpeople, from children in distant parts of the United States to the acting President of the United States, George W. Bush. It’s got to be the most thoroughly researched book I have ever read. An Irish immigrant ministers to prostitutes from a South Bronx project. A group of women gathers to drink tea and mourn their sons killed in Vietnam. An artist couple try to wrap their heads around a fatal car accident they might have caused. This New York teems with the interior life of James Joyce’s Dublin or Virginia Woolf’s London. As Petit walks in the sky, the city is brought together. One day it will have to come together again, its towers turned to rubble. But the city will survive; it has to.

Herbert, Rosemary (2005). "The longest '102 Minutes'; Reporters' tale a riveting personal glimpse of Sept. 11 tragedy.(Arts and Lifestyle)". The Boston Herald. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24 . Retrieved August 14, 2012. Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel, by Kristiaan Versluys, Columbia University Press, 2009 The Things They Left Behind," 2003, by Stephen King (according to the afterword in his anthology Just After Sunset, King was prompted to write a 9/11 story after facing criticism from a friend for writing about The Holocaust in an earlier story when he had not experienced it himself) The award-winning audio version of The Only Plane in the Sky is told by an entire cast of narrators, and it’s one of my favorite audiobooks of all time (and I listen to books on a daily basis). It includes many real audio clips from 9/11, so at times it feels more like a documentary or a podcast. Everyone old enough to be aware of what was happening remembers where they were on September 11th, 2001. Here, experts discuss the causes and history of 9/11, as well as exploring the books on the consequences of that fateful day.

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With Every Mistake, 2005 collection of Canadian Gwynne Dyer's articles published between September 11, 2001 and the Iraqi election in 2005. In Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television, scholars from a variety of disciplines demonstrate how emergent American and international texts expand upon and complicate the initial post-9/11 canon. [4]

This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise but most of the memorable books you’d consider “9/11 novels” aren’t really about the narrow timeline of Sept. 11, 2001. They’re about desperation and survival (physical and emotional) and the sensation of being alive after witnessing mass public murder. They’re about the strength of a city brought to its knees but never laid out flat. They’re about social politics and identity politics and the politics of memory. The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, Dundee International Book Prize-winning 2012 first novel by American Jacob M. Appel