Wigfield (book)

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Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not, is a book-like journalistic expose of approximately 50,000 words, written by Russell Hokes, with photographs by Todd Oldham. In the opinion of Russell Hokes, Wigfield, the book, is a Pulitzer Prize worthy writing-contained-between-two-artfully-designed-covers work, which poignantly and truthily describes the pitiful, hard scrap existence of the "town" of Wigfield. Much of the poignant, truthful writing of Wigfield is characterized by the direct transmission, if not to say plagiarism, of the poignant, truthy words of the heroic residents of Wigfield (town) themselves (theirselves?? itself?? whatever).

Reader Reviews

 * "To me, Wigfield is a deeply funny, refreshingly original book, but to be fair, it is the first book I've ever read." --John Stewart, Host of The Daily Show with John Stewart


 * For my book report, I read Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not. I chose it because I found it in the bushes behind of the A&P. Wigfield, the book, is a lot like what I imagine would happen if Cindy Sherman and Studs Terkel had a baby, and that baby was a book.  Except it if that baby was funny, and funny looking, but in a good way.  Not in a gross way, that made you feel all bad for it because it was funny looking.  In the way that made you feel okay about laughing and throwing rocks at the funny looking baby.  This was the best book I ever found, and I am glad that I got to do my report on it.  I would recommend it to anyone who wanted to learn about small town life, because it is just like life in a small town was what this book is about.  It was sad what happened to all those people in Wigfield, though.  Especially Dilliard - he's cute. --thisniss 20:23, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Fun Facts

 * Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not, Russell Hokes's book about Wigfield, by Russell Hokes, was adapted into a performance called Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not. This limited-run "less than a play, more than a reading" featured the *LIVE*, (un)*NUDE*, and *EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE*  talents of Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Kevin Spacey.