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Title:

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

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

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

Subject:

American prose literature--21st century.
Short stories, American.
American essays--21st century.
American wit and humor--21st century.

Other Authors:

Eggers, Dave, writer of supplementary textual content. writer of supplementary textual content.
Mosley, Walter, writer of supplementary textual content.

Notes:

"A Mariner original."

Contents:

ScholarMatch. Introduction / Madhuri Vijay -- 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 @seinfeltoday -- Best American tattoo stories from penandink.tumblr.com / Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald -- Best American comic that ends in arson -- Best American story about a hazardoud, symbolic 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' notess -- The best American nonrequired reading committee -- Notable nonrequired reading of 2012 -- About 826 National -- ScholarMatch.

Summary:

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

Series:

Best American series.

ISBN:

0544105508 (paperback)
9780544105508 (paperback)

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)