This is my best
Subtitle: great writers share their favorite work
By: edited by Retha Powers and Kathy Kiernan.
Contributors: Powers, Retha.; Kiernan, Kathy.
Edition: 1st Chronicle Books LLC paperback ed.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century.; English literature -- 21st century.; American literature -- 20th century.; American literature -- 21st century.
Other titles: Great writers share their favorite work
Notes: Each selection is introduced by the author.
Table of contents: title: Dilbert, Oct. 8, 2001 / Scott Adams; title: Jimmy Hoffa's Odyssey / Ai; title: From: Before we were free / Julia Alvarez; title: Confessions of a lonely atheist / Natalie Angier; title: From: Timbuktu / Paul Auster; title: Filthy with things / T. Coraghessan Boyle; title: From: Sweet Summer / Bebe Moore Campbell; title: What to do / Hayden Carruth; title: From: Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros; title: Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; title: A short story / Emma Donoghue; title: Her island / Rita Dove; title: From: Tiger-frame glasses / Carolyn Ferrell; title: Dumped / Helen Fisher; title: From: Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot / Al Franken; title: Surprise / Martin Gardner; title: A hidden killer in Cajun country / Laurie Garrett; title: From: Migrations of the heart / Marita Golden; title: The former First Lady and the football hero / A.M. Homes; title: From: Fanatics and fools / Arianna Huffington; title: From: A taste for death / P.D. James; title: Who's Irish? / Gish Jen; title: From: Cherry / Mary Karr; title: From: The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver; title: From: China men / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: A gaggle of saints / Neil LaBute; title: From: Under my skin / Doris Lessing; title: From: The fortress of solitude / Jonathan Lethem; title: My father with cigarette ... / Philip Levine; title: The mappist / Barry Lopez.; title: From: The facts behind the Helsinki roccamatios / Yann Martel; title: From: Property / Valerie Martin; title: From: Salesman in Beijing / Arthur Miller; title: From Mao to America / Anchee Min; title: From: Farewell the trumpets / Jan Morris; title: From: The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami; title: The wedding at the courthouse / Kathleen Norris; title: From: Intimate apparel / Lynn Nottage; title: The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Impossible to tell / Robert Pinsky; title: From: The botany of desire / Michael Pollan; title: America, the multi-national society / Ishmael Reed; title: The queen of mold / Ruth Reichl; title: From Anthropology: Normal; Pieces; [and 5 others] / Dan Rhodes; title: From: Fierce invalids home from hot climates / Tom Robbins; title: Sand / Richard Rodriguez; title: Getting away from it all / Witold Rybczynski; title: Repeat after me / David Sedaris; title: Flakes of fire, handfuls of light / Huston Smith; title: From: Who needs donuts? / Mark Alan Stamaty; title: Frank Sinatra has a cold / Gay Talese; title: Doonesbury: The golden hour / Garry Trudeau; title: From: The laws of our fathers / Scott Turow; title: From: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / Anne Tyler; title: Your lover just called / John Updike; title: Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams.