| Description |
xvi, 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series, 1539-316x |
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Best American series.
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| Contents |
Fable / Teju Cole -- One person means alone / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers -- How to stop a black snake / Louise Erdrich -- The trouble / Smith Henderson -- Excerpt from maximum sunlight / Meagan Day -- So subtle a catch / Simon Parkin -- Uncanny valley / Anna Wiener -- I used to be a human being / Andrew Sullivan -- Lucky dragon / Viet Dinh -- Homegoing, AD / Kima Jones -- Autocracy: rules for survival / Masha Gessen -- My president was black / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Excerpt from nature poem / Tommy Pico -- Hell / Benjamin Nugent -- The most terrible time of my life / Sonny Liew -- The diary of a gulag prison guard / Ivan Chistyakov -- Correspondence with Elena Ferrante / Shelia Heti -- Giant / Mark Polanzak -- Tattoo / Melissa Ragsly -- Peace shall destroy many / Miriam Toews -- The Rockefeller family fund takes on Exxonmobil / David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman -- Selected tweets from @wernertwertzog / William Pannapacker -- You'll be back / Lin-Manuel Miranda -- Excerpt from Utah, Petitioner v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr. / Justice Sonia Sotomayor -- "Woman fries and eats pet goldfish after fight with husband" / Christine Rhein -- An oral history of Gabriel Depiero / Casey Jarman -- I am reminded via email to submit my preferences for the schedule / Chen Chen -- Who are these Trump supporters? / George Saunders. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
"A Mariner original." |
| Summary |
This anthology presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2016, 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 wit and humor.
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American prose literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Humor.
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| Added Author |
Vowell, Sarah, 1969- editor.
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Gumbiner, Daniel, managing editor.
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826 National (Organization), editor.
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| Added Title |
Nonrequired reading 2017 |
| ISBN |
9781328663801 (paperback) |
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1328663809 (paperback) |
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