Two Cities, One Story: A Portland-Brooklyn Exquisite Corpse
1) Paul Auster, Brooklyn Follies (BK)
2) Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography (PDX)
3) Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life (BK)
4) Cheryl Strayed, Wild (PDX)
5) Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (BK)
6) Lidia Yuknavitch, Chronology of Water (PDX)
7) Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (BK)
8) Tom Spanbauer, Man Who Fell In Love With the Moon (PDX)
9) Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography (PDX)
10) Paul Auster, Brooklyn Follies (BK)
11) Helen Phillips, And Yet They Were Happy (BK)
12) Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography (PDX)
13) Nicole Krauss, The History of Love, (BK)
14) Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men (BK)
15) Alexis Smith, Glaciers (PDX)
16) Ursula Leguin, Left Hand of Darkness (PDX)
17) Myla Goldberg, Bee Season (BK)
18) Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (BK)
19) Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (BK)
20) Patrick Dewitt, Sisters Brothers (PDX)
21) Cheryl Strayed, Wild (PDX)
22) Katherine Dunn, Geek Love (PDX)
23) Meghan O’Rourke, The Long Good-Bye (BK)
24) Monica Drake, Clown Girl (PDX)
25) Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (BK)
26) Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating ANimals (BK)
27) Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (PDX)
28) Colson Whitehead, The Illusionist (BK)
29) Jonathan Lethem, Fortress of Solitude (BK)
30) Vanessa Veselka, Zazen (PDX)
31) Lidia Yuknavitch, Chronology of Water (PDX)
32) Chelsea Cain (PDX)
33) Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (PDX)
34) Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (BK)
35) Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep (BK)
36) Willy Vlautin, Lean on Pete (PDX)
37) Paul Auster, Brooklyn Follies (BK)
38) Jon Raymond, Livability (PDX)
39) Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (BK)
40) Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (BK)
41) Lidia Yuknavitch, Chronology of Water (PDX)
42) Colson Whitehead, Zone One (BK)
43) Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (BK)
44) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass