Description: Winner of the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The stories explore America's obsession with news and entertainment culture. In the title story, a theme park has attractions where visitors relive actual news events such as "OJ's Bronco: The Ride", and "Seige at Waco".
Review Quotes: Lordy, what a splendid collection of stories Newsworld is, not least for Pierce's wit about and passion for our analogues, those folks, courtesy of celebrity or notoriety, we root for and against on CNN and Access Hollywood, the folks for whom Disney World is the real world. Pierce understands that the news, like politics, is always local and always personal, and as a fiction writer he reminds us that we, but for time and chance, are OJ or Dylan Klebold, that ours are times both fetching and frightening, and that the only way to understand ourselves is in a tale told tight.-- "Lee K. Abbott"