| Description |
xviii, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series, 1539-316X |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Divine Providence / Quim Monzo -- An excerpt from Notes of a Crocodile / Qiu Miaojin -- This Rain / Catherine Pond -- My Family's Slave / Alex Tizon -- Eight Bites / Carmen Maria Machado -- The Deaths of Henry King / Jesse Ball and Brain Evenson -- A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the key of English major / Seo-Young Chu -- In conversation with Vi Khi Nao / Stacey Tran -- Come and Eat the World's largest shrimp cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital / Diego Enrique Osorno -- The Uninhabitable Earth / David Wallace-Wells -- An excerpt from Hunger / Roxane Gay -- An excerpt from Blacks and the Master/Slave Relation / Frank B Wilderson III -- A Tribute to Alvin Buenaventura / Andrew Leland, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes and Anders Nilsen -- Six selected comics / Chris(Simpsons artist) -- Artist's Statement / Kara Walker -- Wave at the People Walking Upside Down / Tongo Eisen-Martin -- Meanwhile, on Another Planet / Gunnhild Oyehaug -- The David Party / David Leavitt -- The Reenactors / Katherine Augusta Mayfield -- Your Black Friend / Ben Passmore -- Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild / Kathy Fish -- Cat Person / Kristen Roupenian -- An Excerpt from The Antipodes / Annie Baker -- A Fair Accusation of Sexual Harassment or a Witch Hunt? / Lucy Huber -- Lizard-Baby / Benjamin Schaefer -- Chasing Waterfalls / László Krasznahorkai -- Love, Death & Trousers: Eight Found Stories / Laura Francis and Alexander Masters -- On Future and Working Through What Hurts / Hanif Abdurraqib -- The Universe Would Be So Cruel / Souvankham Thammavongsa -- A Love Story / Samantha Hunt. |
| Summary |
This anthology presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2017, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative comics. |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- 21st century.
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American wit and humor -- 21st century.
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Short stories, American.
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American prose literature. (OCoLC)fst00807422
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American wit and humor. (OCoLC)fst00807457
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Creative -- nonfiction.
(OCoLC)fst01919909
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Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Humor.
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Creative nonfiction.
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| Added Author |
Heti, Sheila, 1976- editor.
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Sankey, Clara, editor.
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826 National (Organization), editor.
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| Added Title |
Nonrequired reading 2018 |
| ISBN |
1328465810 (paperback) |
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9781328465818 (paperback) |
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