The best American nonrequired reading 2017
This anthology presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2016, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative comics.
| Other Authors: | Vowell, Sarah, 1969-, Gumbiner, Daniel,, 826 National (Organization), |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston, Massachusetts :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 375 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Best American series.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Fable /
- Teju Cole
- One person means alone /
- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
- How to stop a black snake /
- Louise Erdrich
- Trouble /
- Smith Henderson
- Excerpt from maximum sunlight /
- Meagan Day
- So subtle a catch /
- Simon Parkin
- Uncanny valley /
- Anna Wiener
- I used to be a human being /
- Andrew Sullivan
- Lucky dragon /
- Viet Dinh
- Homegoing, AD /
- Kima Jones
- Autocracy: rules for survival /
- Masha Gessen
- My president was black /
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Excerpt from nature poem /
- Tommy Pico
- Hell /
- Benjamin Nugent
- Most terrible time of my life /
- tSonny Liew
- Diary of a gulag prison guard /
- Ivan Chistyakov
- Correspondence with Elena Ferrante /
- Shelia Heti
- Giant /
- Mark Polanzak
- Tattoo /
- Melissa Ragsly
- Peace shall destroy many /
- Miriam Toews
- Rockefeller family fund takes on Exxonmobil /
- David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman
- Selected tweets from @wernertwertzog /
- William Pannapacker
- You'll be back /
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Excerpt from Utah, Petitioner v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr. /
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor
- "Woman fries and eats pet goldfish after fight with husband" /
- Christine Rhein
- An oral history of Gabriel Depiero /
- Casey Jarman
- I am reminded via email to submit my preferences for the schedule /
- Chen Chen
- Who are these Trump supporters? /
- George Saunders.