Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody

Ian Frazier

Oct 2003 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About this ebook

Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in The New Yorker from 1978 to 1986. In the tradition of A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell, Frazier raises journalism to high literary art. His vivid stories showcase a strange and wonderful parade of American life, from portraits of Heloise, the syndicated household-hints columnist, and Jim Deren, the urban fly-fisher's guru, to small-town residents in western Kansas preparing to celebrate a historic, mutual massacre, to which they invite the Cheyenne Indians' descendants with the promise of free bowling.

About the author

Ian Frazier is the author of Great Plains, On the Rez, Family, Coyote v. Acme, and most recently The Fish's Eye. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.