The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 PDF Author: 826 National
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544569636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son, works with group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to select the year's best new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and category-defying gems aimed at readers 15 and up.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 PDF Author: 826 National
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544569636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Book Description
Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son, works with group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to select the year's best new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and category-defying gems aimed at readers 15 and up.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 PDF Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618246960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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The "fresh anthology of hip American writings" (Forth Worth Morning Star-Telegram) returns this year with a spectacular array of fiction, nonfiction, and humor, drawn from traditional and alternative magazines by Dave Eggers.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 PDF Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547595964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs, published during 2011. Edited by Dave Eggers.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 PDF Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780618902828
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This brilliant collection highlights a bold mix of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and more alternative comics than ever. Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, contributors include Judy Budnitz, "The Onion, The Daily Show, This American Life," and George Packer.

The Best American Short Stories 2014

The Best American Short Stories 2014 PDF Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547819226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2002

The Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2002 PDF Author: Michael Cart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780618246939
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 PDF Author: 826 National
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544812182
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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In a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. They had some good times. There was a whiteboard in the conference room, and often cartoons were drawn on this whiteboard. The cartoons were of varying quality. By the end of the year, with the help of a similar committee of high school students in Ann Arbor, and their guest editor, Rachel Kushner, they selected the contents of this anthology. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 features stories about Bulgarian spaceships, psychedelic mushroom therapy, and a cyclorama in Iowa. If you don’t know what a cyclorama is, you aren’t alone. Read on to find out. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 includes N. R. KLEINFIELD, ANNA KOVATCHEVA, DAN HOY, ANTHONY MARRA, MICHAEL POLLAN, MARILYNNE ROBINSON, DANA SPIOTTA, ADRIAN TOMINE, INARA VERZEMNIEKS and others Rachel Kushner, guest editor, is the author of The Flamethrowers, which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and one of the New York Times’s top five novels of 2013. Kushner’s debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, a winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book.

The Best American Short Stories 2015

The Best American Short Stories 2015 PDF Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547939434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The acclaimed author presents an anthology of “confrontational and at times confounding . . . stories to get lost in” by Colum McCann, Victor Lodato and others (Kirkus Reviews). In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes entries by Denis Johnson, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth McCracken, Aria Beth Sloss, Thomas McGuane, and others.

The Best American Essays 2015

The Best American Essays 2015 PDF Author: Ariel Levy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544579216
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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“22 contributors explore a wide range of experiences” in this “illuminating, invaluable” anthology edited by the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs (Publishers Weekly). Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. The writers featured in this volume are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marriage, parting with a younger self, losing your sanity to Fitbit, and even saying goodbye to a beloved pair of pants are just some of the experience probed by essays that are unified in the daring of their creation. As Levy notes, Writing around an idea you think is worthwhile—an idea you suspect is an insight—requires real audacity.” The Best American Essays 2015 includes entries by Hilton Als, Roger Angell, Justin Cronin, Meghan Daum, Anthony Doerr, Margo Jefferson, David Sedaris, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit and others.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 PDF Author: 826 National
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358093163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Book Description
Literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and alternative comics.