Research Catalog

Title

The best American nonrequired reading 2009 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Marjane Satrapi ; managing editor, Jesse Nathan.

Publication

Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eggers, Dave.

Description

xviii, 413 p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm.

Summary

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

Uniform Title

The best American series.

Alternative Title

Nonrequired reading 2009.

Subject

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

Note

• "A Mariner original."

Contents

Introduction / Marjane Satrapi -- Best American titles of books published in 2008 -- Best American titles of poems published in 2008 -- Best American censorship blunder -- Best American festival names -- Best American letter to the editor -- Best American college annual alumni reports from 2008 -- Best American new band names -- Best American hair analysis narrative -- Best American anonymous postcards -- Best American bank heists -- Best American lawsuits -- Best American Craigslist items and offers to barter -- Best American police blotter items for Johnson County, Kansas -- Best American karate tribute -- Best American farmer's calendar column -- Best American kids' letters to Obama -- Best American comic by a French artist -- Captioning for the blind / Rebecca Bengal -- Relations / Eula Biss -- Triplet / Susan Breen -- Diary of a fire lookout / Philip Connors -- Everything I know about my family on my mother's side / Nathan Englander -- The ticking is the bomb / Nick Flynn -- David foster Wallace / Jonathan Franzen -- Monster / Rebekah Frumkin -- Wild berry blue / Rivka Galchen -- A product of this town / J. Malcolm Garcia -- Your exhausted heart / Anne Gisleson -- The chameleon / David Grann -- Boomtown, Iraq / Denis Johnson -- Million year boom / Tom Kaczynski -- The temp / Amelia Kahaney -- The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai -- The good word / Yannick Murphy -- Mississippi drift / Matthew Power -- The outlaw bride / K.G. Schneider -- How to work a locker room / Michelle Seaton -- Further notes on my unfortunate condition / Nick St. John.

Call Number

JFD 10-116

ISBN

• 0547241607 (pbk.)
• 9780547241609 (pbk.)

OCLC

313657941

Title

The best American nonrequired reading 2009 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Marjane Satrapi ; managing editor, Jesse Nathan.

Imprint

Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Series

The best American series.

Added Author

Eggers, Dave.

Research Call Number

JFD 10-116