The best American nonrequired reading 2018
By: edited by Sheila Heti and the students of 826 National ; managing editor, Clara Sankey
Contributors: 826 National (Organization)
Series: The best American series; Best American series
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781328465818
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: American prose literature; American wit and humor; American Short stories
Other titles: Nonrequired reading 2018
Description: This anthology presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2017, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative comics.
Notes: "A Mariner original."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-290).
Table of contents: title: Divine providence  -- Quim Monzó; title: An excerpt from Notes of a crocodile  -- Qiu Miaojin; title: This rain  -- Catherine Pond; title: My family's slave  -- Alex Tizon; title: Eight bites  -- Carmen Maria Machado; title: The deaths of Henry King  -- Jesse Ball and Brain Evenson; title: A refuge for Jae-In Doe : fugues in the key of English major  -- Seo-Young Chu; title: In conversation with Vi Khi Nao  -- Stacey Tran; title: Come and eat the world's largest shrimp cocktail in Mexico's massacre capital  -- Diego Enrique Osorno; title: The uninhabitable Earth  -- David Wallace-Wells; title: An excerpt from Hunger  -- Roxane Gay; title: An excerpt from Blacks and the master/slave relation  -- Frank B Wilderson III; title: A tribute to Alvin Buenaventura  -- Andrew Leland, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, and Anders Nilsen; title: Six selected comics  -- Chris (Simpsons artist); title: Artist's statement  -- Kara Walker; title: Wave at the people walking upside down  -- Tongo Eisen-Martin; title: Meanwhile, on another planet  -- Gunnhild Oyehaug; title: The David party  -- David Leavitt; title: The reenactors  -- Katherine Augusta Mayfield; title: Your Black friend  -- Ben Passmore; title: Collective nouns for humans in the wild  -- Kathy Fish; title: Cat person  -- Kristen Roupenian; title: An excerpt from The antipodes  -- Annie Baker; title: A fair accusation of sexual harassment or a witch hunt?  -- Lucy Huber; title: Lizard-baby  -- Benjamin Schaefer; title: Chasing waterfalls  -- László Krasznahorkai; title: Love, death & trousers : eight found stories  -- Laura Francis and Alexander Masters; title: On future and working through what hurts  -- Hanif Abdurraqib; title: The universe would be so cruel  -- Souvankham Thammavongsa; title: A love story -- Samantha Hunt.