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Title:

The best American nonrequired reading 2011 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Guillermo del Toro.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xviii, 491 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Eggers, Dave. edt
Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-

Contents:

boys' school, or the news from Spain / Best American Wikileaks revelations -- Best American new band names -- Best American very short story -- Best American even shorter story -- Best American lawsuits -- Best American adjectives, nouns, and verbs used in reporting on the Gulf oil spill of 2010 -- Best American new entries in the O.E.D. beginning with the letter h -- Best American profile of an international pop star -- Best American commune names -- Best American ominous place names -- Best American Call of duty handles -- Best American WiFi network names -- Best American best American categories that got cut -- Best American Mark Twain quotes -- Best American poems written in response to Arizona Senate bill 1070 -- Second lives / Joan Wickersham. The oral history of Adama Bah / Adama Bah -- The women / Tom Barbash -- We show what we have learned -- Clare Beams -- Art of the steal / Joshuah Bearman -- Le Paris! / Sloane Crosley -- Game of her life / Tim Crothers -- Solitude and leadership / William Deresiewicz -- The deep / Anthony Doerr -- Orange / Neil Gaiman -- Butt and bhatti / Mohammed Hanif -- Roger Ebert : the essential man / Chris Jones -- What killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? / Charlie LeDuff -- Weber's head / J. Robert Lennon -- For us surrender is out of the question / Mac McClelland -- A hole in the head / Joyce Carol Oates -- The suicide catcher / Michael Paterniti -- Homing / Henrietta Rose-Innes -- Pleiades / Anjali Sachdeva -- The imaginist / Olivier Schrauwen -- Mid-life cowboy / James Spring -- Market day / James Sturm -- The boys' school, or the news from Spain / Joan Wickersham.

Series:

Best American series

ISBN:

0547577435
9780547577432

OCLC:

(OCoLC)694829965

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)