Displaying 1 of 1 2017 Format: Book Title: The best American nonrequired reading 2017 / edited by Sarah Vowell and the students of 826 National ; managing editor, Daniel Gumbiner. Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. ©2017 Description: xvi, 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm Summary: 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. Series: Best American series, ISSN: 1539-316x Best American series. Subjects: American prose literature -- 21st century. American wit and humor -- 21st century. Short stories, American. Genre: Short stories. Humor. Other Author: Vowell, Sarah, 1969- editor. Gumbiner, Daniel, managing editor. 826 National (Organization), editor. Other Title: Nonrequired reading 2017 Notes: "A Mariner original." Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Fable / Teju Cole -- One person means alone / Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers -- How to stop a black snake / Louise Erdrich -- The trouble / Smith Henderson -- Excerpt from maximum sunlight / Meagan Day -- So subtle a catch / Simon Parkin -- Uncanny valley / Anna Wiener -- I used to be a human being / Andrew Sullivan -- Lucky dragon / Viet Dinh -- Homegoing, AD / Kima Jones -- Autocracy: rules for survival / Masha Gessen -- My president was black / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Excerpt from nature poem / Tommy Pico -- Hell / Benjamin Nugent -- The most terrible time of my life / Sonny Liew -- The diary of a gulag prison guard / Ivan Chistyakov -- Correspondence with Elena Ferrante / Shelia Heti -- Giant / Mark Polanzak -- Tattoo / Melissa Ragsly -- Peace shall destroy many / Miriam Toews -- The Rockefeller family fund takes on Exxonmobil / David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman -- Selected tweets from @wernertwertzog / William Pannapacker -- You'll be back / Lin-Manuel Miranda -- Excerpt from Utah, Petitioner v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr. / Justice Sonia Sotomayor -- "Woman fries and eats pet goldfish after fight with husband" / Christine Rhein -- An oral history of Gabriel Depiero / Casey Jarman -- I am reminded via email to submit my preferences for the schedule / Chen Chen -- Who are these Trump supporters? / George Saunders. ISBN: 9781328663801 1328663809 9781328663801 Other Number: 1004746732 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 698953 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 810.8 Best Ame Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
