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The best American nonrequired reading 2010 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by David Sedaris.
- Title
- The best American nonrequired reading 2010 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by David Sedaris.
- Publication
- Boston : Mariner Books, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS659.2 .B47 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 484 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and alternative comics.
- Series Statement
- Best American series
- Uniform Title
- Best American series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- Short stories
- Nouvelles.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / David Sedaris -- Best American woman comedy piece written by a woman / Wendy Molyneux -- Best American sentences on page 50 of books published in 2009 -- Best American magazine letters section / Stephen Colbert -- Best American fast-foot-related crimes -- Best American gun magazine headlines -- Best American six-word memoirs on love and heartbreak -- Best American new patents -- Best American tweets -- Best American letter to the editor -- Best American overqualified cover letters / Joey Comeau -- Best American fictional character names -- Best American 350-word story / Barry Lopez -- Best American farm names -- Best American first lines of poems published in 2009 -- Best American journal article titles published in 2009 -- Best American illustrated missed connections / Sophie Blackall -- Best American new band names -- Best American lawsuits -- Best American poems written in the last decade or so by soldiers and citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan -- War dances / Sherman Alexie -- Like I was Jesus / Rachel Aviv -- Burying Jeremy Green / Nora Bonner -- The carnival / Lilli Carré -- Capital gains / Rana Dasgupta -- The encirclement / Tamas Dobozy -- Man of steel / Bryan Furuness -- Half beat / Elizabeth Gonzalez -- Gentlemen, start your engines / Andrew Sean Greer -- The photographer / Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier -- What, of this goldfish, would you wish? / Etgar Keret -- Fed to the streets / Courtney Moreno -- The tiger's wife / Téa Obreht -- Breakdown / T. Ott -- Ideas / Patricio Pron -- Vanish / Evan Ratliff -- Seven months, ten days in captivity / David Rohde -- Tent City, U.S.A. / George Saunders -- The nice little people / Kurt Vonnegut -- Freedom / Amy Waldman.
- ISBN
- 9780547241630
- 0547241631
- OCLC
- 505420741
- SCSB-11942485
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library