num_pages: 353
description: This print anthology compiles the best fiction poetry and nonfiction that online literary journals have to offer in an eclectic collection in the manner of other broad-ranging anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Non-Required Reading . This is the first substantial attempt at creating an annual print compilation of the best of material published online. [The] mingling and occasional blurring of genres distinguishes Best of the Web from any other print collections showcasing online literature...the book is heartily significant  featuring work that is sometimes surprising...and sometimes exhilaratingnot unlike the Web itself. Los Angeles TimesThe Internet is built for this short and weird just what ones attention span wants when clicking through. And Almond and Leslie wisely pick up on that making the book worth paging through as well. Time Out ChicagoSuch a development could not have come at a better time for onlineliterary publishing. NewPages.comThough publishing online provides us the opportunity to present fiction freefrom economic imperative permitting us our authors and our readers to relishin the experiment of expression one of our great regrets is forgoing the sensation of binding it printing it holding the work we proudly select in our hands. Then along comes Dzanc Books and this gift of a book Best of the Web  that feels to us like the presentation of an award. Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose  editors Hotel St. GeorgeWhile reading this anthology you may find yourself muttering  Wheredid Dzanc find such brilliant fiction and non-fiction-y writing? Are theywitches?  I dont want to give away too much of the magic but I will saythis...yes they are witches.Eric Spitznagel web editor Monkeybicycle.net In Best of the Web 2008 : Zachary Amendt Jonathan Ames Arlene Ang Michael Bahler Robin Behn David Bottoms Kris Broughton Benjamin Buchholz Edward Byrne Melanie Carter Jared Carter Nancy Cherry Elaine Chiew Andrea Cohen Myfanwy Collins Leigh Anne Couch Elizabeth Crane Stevie Davis Bruce Fischer Abby Frucht Charlie Geoghegean-Clements Garth Risk Hallberg Seth Harwood Edward Hirsch Cara Hoffman Sandra Huber Richard Jespers Christina Kallery Thomas King Anna Kushner Frannie Lindsay Valerie Loveland Maurice Manning LaTonya McQueen Juan Jos Mills - translated by Peter Robinson Amy Minton Bill Mohr Okey Ndibe Stefani Nellen Jenny Pritchett Jacques Rancourt Christopher Rizzo Amy L. Sargent George Saunders R. T. Smith Carmen Gimenez Smith Andrew Sorge Anne Dyer Stuart Sarah Sweeney Ron Tanner Justin Taylor Tess Taylor Kim Whitehead David Willems Paul Yoon J. W. Young Claudia Zuluaga introductions from series editor Nathan Leslie and edition editor Steve Almond and interviews with select authors.
language: English
title: Best of the Web 2008
publisher: Dzanc Books