Research Catalog

Title

The best American nonrequired reading 2007 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Sufjan Stevens.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Eggers, Dave.
• Stevens, Sufjan.

Description

xvii, 353 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.

Series Statement

The best American series

Uniform Title

Best American series.

Alternative Title

Nonrequired reading 2007

Subject

• American prose literature > 21st century
• Short stories, American
• American wit and humor > 21st century

Contents

Introduction / Sufjan Stevens -- Q & A / Dave Eggers -- Best American names for horses expected to have undistinguished careers / Mike Richardson-Bryan -- Best American beginnings of ten stories about ponies -- Best American first sentences of novels published in 2006 -- Best American new brand names -- Best American six-word memoirs -- Best American personals from around the world -- Best American article titles from the best American trade magazines -- Best American creationist explanations for the world's natural wonders -- Best American new animal plagues / Steve Newman -- Best American failed television pilots -- Best American names of television programs taken to their logical conclusion / Joe O'Neill -- Best American police blotter items -- Middle American gothic / Jonathan Ames -- A happy death / Alison Bechdel -- Ghost children / D. Winston Brown -- Rock the junta / Scott Carrier -- American / Joshua Clark -- What is your dangerous idea / Edge Foundation -- Selling the general / Jennifer Egan -- Where I slept / Stephen Elliot -- Lotería / Kevin A. Gonzáles -- How to tell stories to children / Miranda July -- Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine / Matthew Klam -- All aboard the bloated boat : arguments in favor of Barry Bonds / Lee Klein -- Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Nam Le -- Darfur diaries / Jen Marlow, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro -- The big suck : notes from the jarhead underground / David J. Morris -- Stuyvesant High School commencement speech / Conan O'Brian -- Humpies / Mattox Roesch -- So long, anyway / Patrick Somerville -- Literature unnatured / Joy Williams.

Call Number

JFD 12-5223

ISBN

• 0618902767
• 9780618902767
• 9780618902811 (pbk.)
• 0618902813 (pbk.)

OCLC

156812920

Title

The best American nonrequired reading 2007 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Sufjan Stevens.

Imprint

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Series

The best American series

Best American series.

Added Author

Eggers, Dave.

Stevens, Sufjan.

Other Form:

Online version: Best American nonrequired reading 2007. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007 (OCoLC)681149921

Research Call Number

JFD 12-5223