Research Catalog

Title

The best American nonrequired reading 2013 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Walter Mosley ; managing editor, Daniel Gumbiner.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eggers, Dave
• Mosley, Walter

Description

xv, 486 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm.

Summary

Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Series Statement

Best American series

Uniform Title

Best American series.

Subjects

• American prose literature > 21st century
• American poetry > 21st century
• Short stories, American
• American essays > 21st century

Note

• "A Mariner original."

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.

Call Number

JFD 14-3707

ISBN

• 9780544105508 (paperback)
• 0544105508 (paperback)

OCLC

823010615

Title

The best American nonrequired reading 2013 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Walter Mosley ; managing editor, Daniel Gumbiner.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Best American series

Best American series.

Added Author

Eggers, Dave, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Mosley, Walter, writer of supplementary textual content.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-3707