Description |
xv, 486 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
Series |
Best American series |
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Best American series.
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Note |
"A Mariner original." |
Summary |
Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. |
Contents |
Editor's note Introduction / Walter Mosley -- Best American American poem from Tin house / Sherman Alexie -- Best American term paper assignment from Kurt Vonnegut : letters / Dan Wakefield, editor -- Best American anti-war poetry inspired by Kurt Vonnegut from So it goes / Katharyn Howd Machan, Robert West, Shari Wagner, and Jim Wise -- Best American consumer report from www.yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com / EDW Lynch -- Best American advertisement for a home security system from Subtropics / Tim Wirkus -- Best American apocryphal discussion between our nation's founding fathers from the New Yorker / Teddy Wayne -- Best American yada yada yada from @seinfeldtoday -- Best American tattoo stories from penandink.tumblr.com / Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald -- Best American comic that ends in arson from the Freddie stories / Lynda Barry -- Best American story about a hazardous, symbolical cesspool from the Paris review / Peter Orner -- Best American poem about a particle accelerator from Ninth letter / Brendan Todt -- Best American account of tragedy and nationality from Throwing stones at the moon / Sibylla Brodzinsky, Catalina Hoyos, Max Schoening -- Finding Oscar: massacre, memory, and justice in Guatemala from ProPublica / Ana Arana and Sebastian Rotella -- Hannah and Andrew from Texas monthly / Pamela Colloff -- Black box from the New Yorker / Jennifer Egan -- Bewildered decisions in times of mercantile terror from the Paris review / Jim Gavin -- Cuba's new now from National geographic / Cynthia Gorney -- All due respect from the New Yorker / Peter Hessler -- Everyone's reading bastard from Byliner / Nick Hornby -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : a rememberance from Cold drank / Kiese Laymon -- Snake River gorge from Tin house / Alexander Maksik -- Seven stories about Kenel of Koulèv-ville from the Iowa review / Kyle Minor -- Casino from Guernica / Alix Ohlin -- East of the West from Storyville / Miroslav Penkov -- Two deaths from Epiphany / Kim Philley -- Human snowball from the Paris review / Davy Rothbart -- The blind faith of the one-eyed matador from GQ / Karen Russell / Bones from Southwest review / Alexis Schaitkin -- Falling from Ecotone / Andrew Tonkovich -- Lorry Raja from Narrative magazine / Madhuri Vijay -- Contributors' notes -- The best American nonrequired reading committee -- Notable nonrequired reading of 2012 -- About 826 National -- ScholarMatch. |
Subject |
American prose literature -- 21st century.
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American essays -- 21st century.
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Short stories, American.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Added Author |
Eggers, Dave, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
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Mosley, Walter, writer of supplementary textual content.
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ISBN |
9780544105508 paperback |
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0544105508 paperback |
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