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The best American nonrequired reading 2019 / edited and introduced by Edan Lepucki ; managing editor, Beatrice Kilat.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Best American seriesPublisher: Boston : Mariner Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xix, 247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780358093169
  • 0358093163
Other title:
  • Nonrequired reading 2019
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Hill country / Patricia Sammon -- Follow the drinking gourd / Charles Johnson -- Curse for the American dream / Jane Wong-- Barbarians at the gate / Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling-- I worked with Avital Ronell. I believe her accuser/ Andrea Long Chu-- Holton Arms class of 1984. to the United States Congress-- Diagnosis in reverse / Kate Gaskin-- On true war stories/ Viet Thanh Nguyen-- The frog king / Garth Greenwell-- Child A / Emily Rinkema-- As the sparks fly upward / Renee Branum-- Arabic lesson / Latifa Ayad -- Barbara from Florida/ Maddy Raskulinecz-- It's natural (selected comics)/ Nathaniel Russell -- Our Belgian wife / Uche Okonkwo-- Self-care / Robin Coste Lewis -- The brothers Aguayo/ Devin Gordon -- Naked and vulnerable, the rest is circumstance / Sylvia Chan -- Spring / Mikko Harvey -- The babyland diaries / Angela Garbes -- Two poems / Britteney Black Rose Kapri-- The Gettysburg Address (sound translations 1 and 2 / Keith Donnell Jr. -- Almost Human / Deborah Taffa -- Macho / Margaret Ross -- The lake and the onion / David Drury.
Summary: This anthology presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2019, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative comics.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 810.8 B561 Available 33111009605169
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki.



Over the past year, a group of high school students have held weekly discussions in the basement conference room of a publishing house in San Francisco. Tasked with finding the best, most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of the last twelve months, they pored over hundreds of published poems, stories, comics, and essays. With the help of guest editor Edan Lepucki, they selected the contents of this anthology, a collection of work they feel looks a lot like 2019. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 features comics about war and butts and stories about pizza-delivery women, family, dolls giving birth, anthropomorphic lakes, and more. It was a successful year. Read on to see for yourself.



The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Garth Greenwell, Nathaniel Russell, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Andrea Long Chu, Deborah Taffa, Renée Branum, and others.

Includes bibliographical references.

Hill country / Patricia Sammon -- Follow the drinking gourd / Charles Johnson -- Curse for the American dream / Jane Wong-- Barbarians at the gate / Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling-- I worked with Avital Ronell. I believe her accuser/ Andrea Long Chu-- Holton Arms class of 1984. to the United States Congress-- Diagnosis in reverse / Kate Gaskin-- On true war stories/ Viet Thanh Nguyen-- The frog king / Garth Greenwell-- Child A / Emily Rinkema-- As the sparks fly upward / Renee Branum-- Arabic lesson / Latifa Ayad -- Barbara from Florida/ Maddy Raskulinecz-- It's natural (selected comics)/ Nathaniel Russell -- Our Belgian wife / Uche Okonkwo-- Self-care / Robin Coste Lewis -- The brothers Aguayo/ Devin Gordon -- Naked and vulnerable, the rest is circumstance / Sylvia Chan -- Spring / Mikko Harvey -- The babyland diaries / Angela Garbes -- Two poems / Britteney Black Rose Kapri-- The Gettysburg Address (sound translations 1 and 2 / Keith Donnell Jr. -- Almost Human / Deborah Taffa -- Macho / Margaret Ross -- The lake and the onion / David Drury.

This anthology presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2019, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative comics.

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