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| 2019 | New City Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.608 BEST 2019 | On Shelf |
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| Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 BES 2018 | On Shelf | |
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| 2004 | Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction | 810.608 Best 2004 | On Shelf |
| 2006 | Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction | 810.08 Best 2006 | On Shelf |
| 2006 | Tappan Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 BEST 2006 | On Shelf |
| 2002 | Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction | 810.608 Best 2002 | On Shelf |
| 2002 | Jeffersonville-Western Sullivan Public Library Jeffersonvill - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 Bes 2002 | On Shelf |
| 2002 | Monroe Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 BES 2002 | On Shelf |
| 2005 | Liberty Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.08 BES 2005 | On Shelf |
| 2007 | Monroe Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 BES 2007 | On Shelf |
| 2017 | Newburgh Free Library - Coming soon | 810.608 BES 2017 | Coming Soon |
| 2013 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 Bes 2013 | On Shelf |
| 2013 | Stony Point-Rose Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 Bes 2013 | On Shelf |
| 2003 | Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction | 810.608 Best 2003 | On Shelf |
| 2012 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 Bes 2012 | On Shelf |
| 2015 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 Bes 2015 | On Shelf |
| 2016 | Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 Bes 2016 | On Shelf |
| 2016 | Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 BES 2016 | On Shelf |
| 2016 | Nanuet Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.8 Bes 2016 | On Shelf |
| 2018 | Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 810.608 BES 2018 | On Shelf |
Table of Contents
2002: The pamphleteer / Jenny Bitner
The lost boys / Sara Corbett
Naji's Taliban phase / Michael Finkel
Generation exile / Meenakshi Ganguly
Speed demons / Karl Taro Greenfeld
Hubcap diamondstar halo / Camden Joy
Toil and temptation / Michael Kamber
Snacks / Sam Lipsyte
Stop that girl / Elizabeth McKenzie
The nice new radicals / Seth Mnookin
Local hipster overexplaining why he was at the mall
Marilyn Manson now going door-to-door trying to shock people
Journal of a new cobra recruit / Keith Pille
My fake job / Rodney Rothman
Fourth angry mouse / David Schickler
Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser
Blood poison / Heidi Jon Schmidt
To make a friend, be a friend / David Sedaris
Higher education / Gary Smith
"Jiving" with your teen / Seaton Smith
Bomb scare / Adrian Tomine
Selections from Please don't kill the freshman / Zoe Trope.
2003: What Sacagawea means to me / Sherman Alexie
Common scents / Lynda Barry
Littlest Hitler / Ryan Boudinot
Tales of the tyrant / Mark Bowden
Meticulous grove of black and green / Michael Buckley
Visiting hours / Judy Budnitz
Things we knew when the house caught fire / David Drury
Primer for the punctuation of heart disease / Jonathan Safran Foer
Guide to being a groupie / Lisa Gabriele
Love and other catastrophes: a mix tape / Amanda Holzer
Pretenders / Chuck Klosterman
Saint Chola / K. Kvashay-Boyle
Rana Fegrina / Dylan Landis
Golden chariot / Andrea Lee
Stuff / J.T. Leroy
Three days, a month, more / Douglas Light
Touching him / Nasdijj
I'll try anything with a detached air of superiority / from the Onion
How Susie Bayer's T-shirt ended up on Yusuf Mama's back / George Packer
The ant of the self / ZZ Packer
How to write suspense / James Pinkerton
Rooster at the hitchin' post / David Sedaris
Astroturf: How manufactured "Grassroots" movements are subverting democracy / Jason Stella
Lost boys / John Verbos
Riot baby (life in South Central Los Angeles) / Daniel Voll.
2004: Half of a Yellow Sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
City of Clowns / Daniel Alarcon
Zoanthropy / David Benioff
We have a Pope / Christopher Buckley
What you eat / Ben Ehrenreich
Vickie, Lacey, Ray, Sharon, Corey, Derek, Carol and Dave / Eve Englezos and Joshua Moutray
The futile pursuit of happiness / Jon Gerter
Running for his life / Michael Hall
Poor Sailor / Sammy Harkham
Good World / The minor wars / Kaui Hart Hemmings
Nigh Train / Thom Jones
Bones / Tom Kealy
How they took my body apart and made another me / Robert Kelly
Secret Names / David Mamet
Hidden lives of lakes / Gina Ochsner
Sixteen Jackies / Lance Olsen
The smoothest way is full of stones / Julie Orringer
The fifteen-year layover / Michael Paterniti
Big Brother / Paula W. Peterson
The promise of something / Cheryl Printup
Full house / David Sedaris
Transmission from camp trans / Michelle Tea.
2005: Passing periods / Joe Sayers
The mediocrity principle / Anders Nilsen
Florida / Daniel Alarcon
The death of Mustango Salvaje / Jessica Anthony
Tiger mending / Aimee Bender
Free burgers for life / Ryan Boudinot
Five forgotten instincts / Dan Chaon
Lyndon / Amber Dermont
A lynching in stereoscope / Stephanie Dickinson
Heavy metal mercenary / Tish Durkin
My little brother ruined my life / Stephen Elliott
Tearaway burkas and tinplate menorahs / Al Franken
The lost boys / Jeff Gordinier
Roadkill / Kate Krautkramer
Hell-heaven / Jhumpa Lahiri
At the Cafe Lovely / Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Catalogue sales / Molly McNett
Bohemians
Manifesto / George Saunders
The joke / J. David Stevens
The myth of the frequent flier / Jonathan Tel
Girls I know / Douglas Trevor
They came out like ants! / William T. Vollmann
Diary of a journal reader / Lauren Weedman.
2006: Introduction / Matt Groening
Best American fake headlines / from The Onion
Best American Daily Show exchange on the anniversary of Watergate / From The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Best American ringing defeat of religion masquerading as science / from Kitzmiller v. Dover
Best American answers to the question "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" / from The Edge Foundation
Best American excerpt from a military blog / from A Soldier's Thoughts
Best American epigraph wherein a contemporary writer quotes a great writer who died in 2005 / from Saturday, by Ian McEwan
Best American first sentences of novels of 2005
Best American new words and phrases / from The Oxford Dictionary of English, revised, second edition
Best American new band names
Best American things to know about Chuck Norris / from Chuck Norris facts
Best American things to know about hoboes / from The Areas of My Expertise
Shipwreck / Cat Bohannon (from The Georgia Review)
Nadia / Judy Budnitz (from One Story)
Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea (excerpt) / Guy Delisle
The insurgent's tale / Tom Downey (from Rolling Stone)
The innocents / Gipi (from Wish You Were Here)
The Iraqi constitution / from The Washington Post
Me and you and everyone we know / Miranda July (from the original shooting script)
Wading towards home / Michael Lewis (from The New York Times Magazine)
Are Iraqis optimistic? / The Lincoln Group
Room no. 12 / Naguib Mahfouz (from Zoetrop : All-Story)
Pirate station / Rick Moody (from Gargoyle)
The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day / Haruki Murakami (from The New Yorker)
False cognate / Jeff Parker (from Hobart)
Love it or leave it / David Rakoff (from Don't Get Too Comfortable)
Trauma on loan / Joe Sacco (from The Guardian)
The new Mecca / George Saunders (from GQ)
Peg / Sam Shaw (from Open City)
Letting go of God? / Julia Sweeney (from This American Life)
Here is a lesson in creative writing / Kurt Vonnegut (from A Man Without a Country)
Kenyon commencement speech / David Foster Wallace.
2007: Introduction / Sufjan Stevens
Q & A / Dave Eggers
Best American names for horses expected to have undistinguished careers / Mike Richardson-Bryan
Best American beginnings of ten stories about ponies
Best American first sentences of novels published in 2006
Best American new brand names
Best American six-word memoirs
Best American personals from around the world
Best American article titles from the best American trade magazines
Best American creationist explanations for the world's natural wonders
Best American new animal plagues / Steve Newman
Best American failed television pilots
Best American names of television programs taken to their logical conclusion / Joe O'Neill
Best American police blotter items
Middle American gothic / Jonathan Ames
A happy death / Alison Bechdel
Ghost children / D. Winston Brown
Rock the junta / Scott Carrier
American / Joshua Clark
What is your dangerous idea / Edge Foundation
Selling the general / Jennifer Egan
Where I slept / Stephen Elliot
Loteria / Kevin A. Gonzales
How to tell stories to children / Miranda July
Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine / Matthew Klam
All aboard the bloated boat : arguments in favor of Barry Bonds / Lee Klein
Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Nam Le
Darfur diaries / Jen Marlow, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro
The big suck : notes from the jarhead underground / David J. Morris
Stuyvesant High School commencement speech / Conan O'Brian
Humpies / Mattox Roesch
So long, anyway / Patrick Somerville
Literature unnatured / Joy Williams.
2008: Best American police blotter items from Kensington, California
Best American things for sale that this man on the Internet will sell you
Best American facebook groups
Best American New York Times headlines from 1907
Best American last sentences of books of 2007
Best American names of champion show dogs of 2007
Best American new band names
Best American Ron Paul facts
Best American Kurt Vonnegut writings
Best American diary of a young girl (aka my massive feelings) / Laurie Weeks
Best American diary of the living dead, or, Are you there God? It's me. Also, a bunch of zombies / Jake Swearingen
Y / Marjorie Celona
The white train / J. Malcolm Garcia
The dreamer did not exist / David Gessner
Darkness / Andrew Sean Greer
The Hotel Malogo / Helon Habila
The three paradoxes / Paul Hornschemeier
Neptune's navy / Raffi Khatchadourian
Ayana / Stephen King
Queen of the Scottish Fairies / Rutu Modan
Searching for Zion / Emily Raboteau
Bill Clinton, public citizen / George Sanders
Cake / Patrick Tobin
Where we must be / Laura van den Berg
Pearls before breakfast / Gene Weingarten
The elegant rube / Malerie Willens.
2009: Captioning for the Blind / Rebecca Bengal
Relations / Eula Biss
Triplet / Susan Breen
Diary of a Fire Lookout / Philip Connors
Everything I Know About My Family On My Mother's Side / Nathan Englander
The Ticking Is the Bomb / Nick Flynn
David Foster Wallace / Jonathan Franzen
Monster / Rebekah Frumkin
Wild Berry Blue / Rivka Galchen
A Product of This Town / Malcolm Garcia
Your Exhausted Heart / Anne Gisleson
The Chameleon / David Grann
Boomtown / Denis Johnson
Million Year Boom / Tom Kaczynski
The Temp / Amelia Kahney
The Briefcase / Rebecca Makkai
The Good Word / Yannick Murphy
Mississippi Drift / Matthew Power
The Outlaw Bride / K.G. Schneider
How To Work a Locker Room / Michelle Seaton
Further Notes On My Unfortunate Condition / Nick St. John
2010: Sherman Alexie / War Dances
Rachel Aviv / Like I Was Jesus
Nora Bonner / Burying Jeremy Green
Lilli Carre / The Carnival
Rana Dasgupta / Capital Gains
Tamas Dobozy / The Encirclement
Bryan Furuness / Man of Steel
Elizabeth Gonzales / Half Beat
Andrew Sean Greer / Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
Emmanuel Guibert / The Photographer
Etgar Keret / What, Of This Goldfish, Would You wish
Courtney Moreno / Fed to the Streets
Tea Obreht / The Tiger's Wife
T. Ott / Breakdown
Patricio Pron / Ideas
Evan Ratliff / Vanish
David Rohde / Seven Moths, Ten Days in Captivity
George Saunders / Tent City, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut / The Nice Little People
Amy Waldman/ Freedom
2011: Second lives / Daniel Alarcon
An oral history of Adama Bah / Adama Bah
Women / Tom barbash
We show what we have learned / Clare Beams
Art of the steal / Joshuah Bearman
Le Paris! / Sloane Crosley
Game of her life / Tim Crothers
Solitude and leadership / William Deresiewicz
Deep / Anthony Doerr
Orange / Neil Gaiman
Butt and Bhatti / Mohammed Hanif
Roger Ebert: the essential man / Chris Jones
What killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? / Charlei LeDuff
Weber's head / J. Robert Lennon
For us surrender is out of the question / Mac McClelland
A hole in the head / Joyce Carol Oates
Suicide catcher / Michael Paterniti
Homing / Henrietta Rose-Innes
Pleiades / Anjali Sachdeva
Imaginist / Olivier Schrauwen
Mid-life cowboy / James Spring
Market day / JamesStrum
Boy's school, or the news from Spain / Joan Wickersham.
2012: Best American sonnet with vengeance from Zone 3 / Sherman Alexie
Best American very short memoir from the New Yorker / Junot Diaz
Best American manifesto from The Occupied Wall Street Jounal
Best American minutes from the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street from www.nycga.net
Best American observatons at a modern protest movement from McSweeney's / Said Sayrafiezadeh
Best American reflection on historic protest movements from The Occupied Wall Street Journal / Adam Hochschild
Best American reflection on a modern protest movement from The New York Times / Robert Hass
Best American letters in the mail from The Rumpus / Stephen Elliott, .. [et al.]
Best American palindrome from The Believer / Barry Duncan
Best American tweets responding to the death of Osama bin Laden from www.twitter.com
Best American lonely guy from Jeff, One Lonely Guy / David Shields.. [et al.]
A fable for the living from Electric Literature / Kevin Brockmeier
Tin man from This American Life / Judy Budnitz
Years of my birth from The New Yorker / Louise Erdrich
An oral history of Olivia Hamilton from Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons / Olivia Hamilton.. [et al.]
Redeployment from Granta / Phil Klay
Kamikaze from A Public Space / Nora Krug
Palace of the people from Narrative Magazine / Anthony Marra
Children from Granta / Julie Otsuka
Street of the house of the sun from The Pinch / Michael Poore
Beautiful monsters from Tin House / Eric Puchner
Bellwether from Water-stone Review / Mark Robert Rapacz
Love act from Raritan / Chaz Reetz-Laiolo
South Beach from Annalemma / Ryan Rivas
Amazing adventures of Phoenix Jones from GQ / Jon Ronson
Tenth of December from The New Yorker / George Saunders
Transcription of a eulogy / Mona Simpson
Peyton's place from GQ / John Jeremiah Sullivan
A brief history of the art form known as "Hortisculpture" from Optic Nerve / Adrian Tomine
Outlaw from The New York Times Magazine / Jose Antonio Vargas
Don't eat cat from Byliner / Jess Walter
Paper tigers from New York / Wesley Yang.
2013: Editor's note Introduction / Walter Mosley
Best American American poem from Tin house / Sherman Alexie
Best American term paper assignment from Kurt Vonnegut letters / Dan Wakefield, editor
Best American anti-war poetry inspired by Kurt Vonnegut from So it goes / Katharyn Howd Machan, Robert West, Shari Wagner, and Jim Wise
Best American consumer report from www.yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com / EDW Lynch
Best American advertisement for a home security system from Subtropics / Tim Wirkus
Best American apocryphal discussion between our nation's founding fathers from the New Yorker / Teddy Wayne
Best American yada yada yada from @seinfeldtoday
Best American tattoo stories from penandink.tumblr.com / Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald
Best American comic that ends in arson
Best American story about a hazardoud, symbolic cesspool from the Paris review / Peter Orner
Best American poem about a particle accelerator from Ninth letter / Brendan Todt
Best American account of tragedy and nationality from Throwing stones at the moon / Sibylla Brodzinsky, Catalina Hoyos, Max Schoening
Finding Oscar: massacre, memory, and justice in Guatemala from ProPublica / Ana Arana and Sebastian Rotella
Hannah and Andrew from Texas monthly / Pamela Colloff
Black box from the New Yorker / Jennifer Egan
Bewildered decisions in times of mercantile terror from the Paris review / Jim Gavin
Cuba's new now from National geographic / Cynthia Gorney
All due respect from the New Yorker / Peter Hessler
Everyone's reading bastard from Byliner / Nick Hornby
How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : a remembrance from Cold drank / Kiese Laymon
Snake River gorge from Tin house / Alexander Maksik
Seven stories about Kenel of Koul©{middot}v-ville from the Iowa review / Kyle Minor
Casino from Guernica / Alix Ohlin
East of the West from Storyville / Miroslav Penkov
Two deaths from Epiphany / Kim Philley
Human snowball from the Paris review / Davy Rothbart
The blind faith of the one-eyed matador from GQ / Karen Russell / Bones from Southwest review / Alexis Schaitkin
Falling from Ecotone / Andrew Tonkovich
Lorry Raja from Narrative magazine / Madhuri Vijay
Contributors' notess
The best American nonrequired reading committee
Notable nonrequired reading of 2012
About 826 National
ScholarMatch.
2014: On the study of physics in preschool classrooms / Matthew Schultz
Style / Dan Keane
The man who saves you from yourself / Nathaniel Rich
Hugo / Karen Maner
An interview with Mona Eltahawy / Yasmine El Rashidi
Three poems / Matthew Dickman
Two women / Amos Oz
Seven days in Syria / Janine di Giovanni
Rage of Poseidon / Anders Nilsen
15 second android / Lally Katz
The robots are coming / Kyle G. Dargan
Embarazada / Andrew Foster Altschul
The dream boat / Luke Mogelson
Two poems / Lucie Brock-Broido
The body / A. T. Grant
Shift #6 / Ali Liebegott
Body-without-soul / Kathryn Davis
Episode 15: street cleaning day / Jospeh Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Have cake and tea with your demons / Yumi Sakugawa
The Chinese barracks / Rebecca Rukeyser
If he hollers let him go / Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Cat n Leo / Reggie Watts
After work / Gabriel Heller
The real Alan Gass / Thomas Pierce
K becomes K / V. V. Ganeshananthan
Charybdis / Cole Becher
If you were a dinosaur, my love / Rachel Swirsky
The saltwater twin / Maia Morgan
Nirvana / Adam Johnson
Little thing / Sylvan Oswald
Joy / Zade Smith
I feel yes / Nick Sturm.
2015: Who wants to shoot an elephant? / Wells Tower
Jack, July / Victor Lodato
780 days of solitude / Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd
Letter to my grandnephew / Christopher Myers
Dynamite / Anders Carlson-Wee
The Contestant / Daniel Alarcón
The Christmas miracle / Rebecca Curtis
Wear areas / Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton
Isaac Cameron Hill / Ammi Keller
You are in the dark, in the car.. / Claudia Rankine
A Speck in the sea / Paul Tough
Things you're not proud of / Tom McAllister
Out of Eden walk / Paul Salopek
An Inventory / Joan Wickersham
Our neighbor's house / Emily Carroll
Miracle in Parque Chas / Inés Fernández Moreno
An Oral history of Neftali Cuello / Corinne Goria
Andre the giant / Box Brown
Remote control / Sarah Marshall
Wish you were here you are / Rachel Zucker
The Future looks good / Lesley Nneka Arimah
Chainsaw fingers / Paul Crenshaw
Sky burial / Alex Mar
Four poems / TJ Jarrett
Fear itself / Katie Coyle
What the ocean eats / Kawai Strong Washburn
The High road / Bryan Stevenson.
2016: The Grozny tourist bureau / Anthony Marra
An oral history of Abdelrahman Al-Ahmar / Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek
Jelly and Jack / Dana Spiotta
The Teflon toxin / Sharon Lerner
How I became a prison gardener / Michele Scott
The gentlest village / Jesse Ball
An interview with President Obama / Marilynne Robinson
Buena Vista Park, 2 A.M. / sam sax
The miracle years of Little Fork / Rebecca Makkai
Death-qualified / Gary Indiana
The trip treatment / Michael Pollan
Strong city / Da'Shay Portis
Sudba I / Anna Kovatcheva
Homer Dill's undead / Inara Verzemnieks
Reluctant citizens / Kyle Boelte
Shadehill / Mark Hitz
Dream house / Ariana Reines
Killing and dying / Adrian Tomine
On this side / Yuko Sakata
The lonely death of George Bell / N. R. Kleinfield
The death of the sky / David Wagoner
Bandit / Molly Brodak
Borb / Jason Little
Last poem for Oe / Laurel Hunt
Things I know to be true / Kendra Fortmeyer
Five poems / Dan Hoy
Algorithmic problem solving for father-daughter relationships / Xuan Juliana Wang
Brown vs. Ferguson / Endnotes
Contributors' notes
The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee
Notable nonrequired reading of 2015
About 826 National
About ScholarMatch.
2017: 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.
2018: Divine Providence / Quim Monzo
An excerpt from Notes of a Crocodile / Qiu Miaojin
This Rain / Catherine Pond
My Family's Slave / Alex Tizon
Eight Bites / Carmen Maria Machado
The Deaths of Henry King / Jesse Ball and Brain Evenson
A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the key of English major / Seo-Young Chu
In conversation with Vi Khi Nao / Stacey Tran
Come and Eat the World's largest shrimp cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital / Diego Enrique Osorno
The Uninhabitable Earth / David Wallace-Wells
An excerpt from Hunger / Roxane Gay
An excerpt from Blacks and the Master/Slave Relation / Frank B Wilderson III
A Tribute to Alvin Buenaventura / Andrew Leland, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes and Anders Nilsen
Six selected comics / Chris(Simpsons artist)
Artist's Statement / Kara Walker
Wave at the People Walking Upside Down / Tongo Eisen-Martin
Meanwhile, on Another Planet / Gunnhild Oyehaug
The David Party / David Leavitt
The Reenactors / Katherine Augusta Mayfield
Your Black Friend / Ben Passmore
Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild / Kathy Fish
Cat Person / Kristen Roupenian
An Excerpt from The Antipodes / Annie Baker
A Fair Accusation of Sexual Harassment or a Witch Hunt? / Lucy Huber
Lizard-Baby / Benjamin Schaefer
Chasing Waterfalls / L©Łszl©{dstrok} Krasznahorkai
Love, Death & Trousers: Eight Found Stories / Laura Francis and Alexander Masters
On Future and Working Through What Hurts / Hanif Abdurraqib
The Universe Would Be So Cruel / Souvankham Thammavongsa
A Love Story / Samantha Hunt.
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Published
Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002-.
Format
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volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
ISSN
1539-316X
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Eggers, D., Cart, M., Kushner, R., & Heti, S. (2002). The best American nonrequired reading . Houghton Mifflin Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dave. Eggers et al.. 2002. The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dave. Eggers et al.. The Best American Nonrequired Reading Houghton Mifflin Co, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Eggers, Dave., Michael Cart, Rachel Kushner, and Sheila Heti. The Best American Nonrequired Reading Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.
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