The best American nonrequired reading 2017
By: edited by Sarah Vowell and the students of 826 National ; managing editor, Daniel Gumbiner
Contributors: 826 National (Organization)
Series: Best American series; Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781328663801
Subjects: American prose literature; American wit and humor; American Short stories
Other titles: Nonrequired reading 2017
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Mariner original."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fable  -- Teju Cole; title: One person means alone  -- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers; title: How to stop a black snake  -- Louise Erdrich; title: The trouble  -- Smith Henderson; title: Excerpt from maximum sunlight  -- Meagan Day; title: So subtle a catch  -- Simon Parkin; title: Uncanny valley  -- Anna Wiener; title: I used to be a human being  -- Andrew Sullivan; title: Lucky dragon  -- Viet Dinh; title: Homegoing, AD  -- Kima Jones; title: Autocracy: rules for survival  -- Masha Gessen; title: My president was black  -- Ta-Nehisi Coates; title: Excerpt from nature poem  -- Tommy Pico; title: Hell  -- Benjamin Nugent; title: The most terrible time of my life  -- Sonny Liew; title: The diary of a gulag prison guard  -- Ivan Chistyakov; title: Correspondence with Elena Ferrante  -- Shelia Heti; title: Giant  -- Mark Polanzak; title: Tattoo  -- Melissa Ragsly; title: Peace shall destroy many  -- Miriam Toews; title: The Rockefeller family fund takes on Exxonmobil  -- David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman; title: Selected tweets from @wernertwertzog  -- William Pannapacker; title: You'll be back  -- Lin-Manuel Miranda; title: Excerpt from Utah, Petitioner v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr.  -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor; title: "Woman fries and eats pet goldfish after fight with husband"  -- Christine Rhein; title: An oral history of Gabriel Depiero  -- Casey Jarman; title: I am reminded via email to submit my preferences for the schedule  -- Chen Chen; title: Who are these Trump supporters? -- George Saunders.