The best American nonrequired reading 2013
By: edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Walter Mosley ; managing editor, Daniel Gumbiner
Series: Best American series
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780544105508
Subjects: American prose literature; American essays; American poetry; American Short stories
Description: Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Table of contents: title: Editor's note; title: Introduction  -- Walter Mosley -- Best American American poem from Tin house / -- Sherman Alexie; title: Best American term paper assignment from; title: Kurt Vonnegut letters  -- Dan Wakefield, editor; title: Best American anti-war poetry inspired by Kurt Vonnegut from; title: So it goes  -- Katharyn Howd Machan, Robert West, Shari Wagner, and Jim Wise; title: Best American consumer report from www.yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com  -- EDW Lynch; title: Best American advertisement for a home security system from; title: Subtropics  -- Tim Wirkus; title: Best American apocryphal discussion between our nation's founding fathers from the; title: New Yorker  -- Teddy Wayne; title: Best American yada yada yada from @seinfeltoday --; title: Best American tattoo stories from penandink.tumblr.com  -- Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald; title: Best American comic that ends in arson --; title: Best American story about a hazardoud, symbolic cesspool from the; title: Paris review  -- Peter Orner; title: Best American poem about a particle accelerator from; title: Ninth letter  -- Brendan Todt; title: Best American account of tragedy and nationality from; title: Throwing stones at the moon  -- Sibylla Brodzinsky, Catalina Hoyos, Max Schoening; title: Finding Oscar: massacre, memory, and justice in Guatemala from; title: ProPublica  -- Ana Arana and Sebastian Rotella; title: Hannah and Andrew from; title: Texas monthly  -- Pamela Colloff; title: Black box from the; title: New Yorker  -- Jennifer Egan; title: Bewildered decisions in times of mercantile terror from the; title: Paris review  -- Jim Gavin; title: Cuba's new now from; title: National geographic  -- Cynthia Gorney; title: All due respect from the; title: New Yorker  -- Peter Hessler; title: Everyone's reading bastard from; title: Byliner  -- Nick Hornby; title: How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : a rememberance from; title: Cold drank  -- Kiese Laymon; title: Snake River gorge from; title: Tin house  -- Alexander Maksik; title: Seven stories about Kenel of Koulèv-ville from the; title: Iowa review  -- Kyle Minor; title: Casino from; title: Guernica  -- Alix Ohlin; title: East of the West from; title: Storyville  -- Miroslav Penkov; title: Two deaths from; title: Epiphany  -- Kim Philley; title: Human snowball from the; title: Paris review  -- Davy Rothbart; title: The blind faith of the one-eyed matador from; title: GQ  -- Karen Russell /; title: Bones from; title: Southwest review  -- Alexis Schaitkin; title: Falling from; title: Ecotone  -- Andrew Tonkovich; title: Lorry Raja from; title: Narrative magazine  -- Madhuri Vijay; title: Contributors' notess --; title: The best American nonrequired reading committee --; title: Notable nonrequired reading of 2012 --; title: About 826 National --; title: ScholarMatch.