num_pages: 276
description: How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot it turns out. Since its founding in 1997 Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications a journal readers regularly return to for insightful essays from skilled writers at every stage of their careers. Featuring examples of nonfiction forms such as memoir narrative lyric braided hermit crab and hybrid The Best of Brevity brings you 84 of the best-loved and most memorable reader favorites collected in print for the first time. Compressed to their essence these essays glint with drama grief love and anger as well as innumerable other lived intensities resulting in an anthology that is as varied as it is unforgettable leaving the reader transformed.With contributions from Krys Malcolm Belc Jenny Boully Brian Doyle Roxane Gay Daisy Hernndez Michael Martone Ander Monson Patricia Park Kristen Radtke Diane Seuss Abigail Thomas Jia Tolentino and so many more The Best of Brevity offers unparalleled diversity of style form and perspective for those interested in reading writing or teaching the flash nonfiction form.
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title: The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction
publisher: Rose Metal Press