| Description |
xv, 412 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Contents |
Best American sonnet with vengeance from Zone 3 / Sherman Alexie -- Best American very short memoir from the New Yorker / Junot Díaz -- Best American manifesto from The Occupied Wall Street Jounal -- Best American minutes from the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street from www.nycga.net -- Best American observatons at a modern protest movement from McSweeney's / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Best American reflection on historic protest movements from The Occupied Wall Street Journal / Adam Hochschild -- Best American reflection on a modern protest movement from The New York Times / Robert Hass -- Best American letters in the mail from The Rumpus / Stephen Elliott, ... [et al.] -- Best American palindrome from The Believer / Barry Duncan -- Best American tweets responding to the death of Osama bin Laden from www.twitter.com -- Best American lonely guy from Jeff, One Lonely Guy / David Shields... [et al.] -- Fable for the living from Electric Literature / Kevin Brockmeier -- Tin man from This American Life / Judy Budnitz -- Years of my birth from The New Yorker / Louise Erdrich -- Oral history of Olivia Hamilton from Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons / Olivia Hamilton... [et al.] -- Redeployment from Granta / Phil Klay -- Kamikaze from A Public Space / Nora Krug -- Palace of the people from Narrative Magazine / Anthony Marra -- Children from Granta / Julie Otsuka -- Sreet of the house of the sun from The Pinch / Michael Poore -- Beautiful monsters from Tin House / Eric Puchner -- Bellwether from Water-stone Review / Mark Robert Rapacz -- The love act from Raritan / Chaz Reetz-Laiolo -- South Beach from Annalemma / Ryan Rivas -- The amazing adventures of Phoenix Jones from GQ / Jon Ronson -- Tenth of December from The New Yorker / George Saunders -- Transcription of a eulogy / Mona Simpson -- Peyton's place from GQ / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- A brief history of the art form known as "Hortisculpture" from Optic Nerve / Adrian Tomine -- Outlaw from The New York Times Magazine / Jose Antonio Vargas -- Don't eat cat from Byliner / Jess Walter -- Paper tigers from New York / Wesley Yang. |
| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
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Two graphic novels : Kamikaze and A brief history of the art form known as "Hortisculpture." |
| Summary |
Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and alternative comics. |
| 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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Graphic novels.
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| Added Author |
Eggers, Dave.
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.
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| ISBN |
9780547595962 paperback |
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0547595964 paperback |
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