| Description |
xvii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Matt Groening -- Best American fake headlines / from The Onion -- Best American Daily Show exchange on the anniversary of Watergate / From The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- Best American ringing defeat of religion masquerading as science / from Kitzmiller v. Dover -- Best American answers to the question "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" / from The Edge Foundation -- Best American excerpt from a military blog / from A Soldier's Thoughts -- Best American epigraph wherein a contemporary writer quotes a great writer who died in 2005 / from Saturday, by Ian McEwan -- Best American first sentences of novels of 2005 -- Best American new words and phrases / from The Oxford Dictionary of English, revised, second edition -- Best American new band names -- Best American things to know about Chuck Norris / from Chuck Norris facts -- Best American things to know about hoboes / from The Areas of My Expertise -- Shipwreck / Cat Bohannon (from The Georgia Review) -- Nadia / Judy Budnitz (from One Story) -- Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea (excerpt) / Guy Delisle -- The insurgent's tale / Tom Downey (from Rolling Stone) -- The innocents / Gipi (from Wish You Were Here) -- The Iraqi constitution / from The Washington Post -- Me and you and everyone we know / Miranda July (from the original shooting script) -- Wading towards home / Michael Lewis (from The New York Times Magazine) -- Are Iraqis optimistic? / The Lincoln Group -- Room no. 12 / Naguib Mahfouz (from Zoetrop : All-Story) -- Pirate station / Rick Moody (from Gargoyle) -- The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day / Haruki Murakami (from The New Yorker) -- False cognate / Jeff Parker (from Hobart) -- Love it or leave it / David Rakoff (from Don't Get Too Comfortable) -- Trauma on loan / Joe Sacco (from The Guardian) -- The new Mecca / George Saunders (from GQ) -- Peg / Sam Shaw (from Open City) -- Letting go of God? / Julia Sweeney (from This American Life) -- Here is a lesson in creative writing / Kurt Vonnegut (from A Man Without a Country) -- Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace. |
| Summary |
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects. |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- 21st century.
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Short stories, American.
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American wit and humor -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Eggers, Dave.
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| Added Title |
Nonrequired reading 2006 |
| ISBN |
0618570500 |
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0618570519 paperback |
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