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The best American nonrequired reading 2010 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by David Sedaris.

Eggers, Dave, (editor). Sedaris, David, (author of introduction, etc).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780547241630
  • ISBN: 0547241631
  • Physical Description: xix, 484 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

With Note:
MARCIVE 4/04/11
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / David Sedaris -- Best American woman comedy piece written by a woman / Wendy Molyneux -- Best American sentences on page 50 of books published in 2009 -- Best American magazine letters section / Stephen Colbert -- Best American fast-foot-related crimes -- Best American gun magazine headlines -- Best American six-word memoirs on love and heartbreak -- Best American new patents -- Best American tweets -- Best American letter to the editor -- Best American overqualified cover letters / Joey Comeau -- Best American fictional character names -- Best American 350-word story / Barry Lopez -- Best American farm names -- Best American first lines of poems published in 2009 -- Best American journal article titles published in 2009 -- Best American illustrated missed connections / Sophie Blackall -- Best American new band names -- Best American lawsuits -- Best American poems written in the last decade or so by soldiers and citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan -- War dances / Sherman Alexie -- Like I was Jesus / Rachel Aviv -- Burying Jeremy Green / Nora Bonner -- Carnival / Lilli Carré -- Capital gains / Rana Dasgupta -- Encirclement / Tamas Dobozy -- Man of steel / Bryan Furuness -- Half beat / Elizabeth Gonzalez -- Gentlemen, start your engines / Andrew Sean Greer -- Photographer / Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier -- What, of this goldfish, would you wish? / Etgar Keret -- Fed to the streets / Courtney Moreno -- Tiger's wife / Téa Obreht -- Breakdown / T. Ott -- Ideas / Patricio Pron -- Vanish / Evan Ratliff -- Seven months, ten days in captivity / David Rohde -- Tent City, U.S.A. / George Saunders -- Nice little people / Kurt Vonnegut -- Freedom / Amy Waldman.
Subject:
American prose literature > 21st century.
Short stories, American.
American essays > 21st century.
American wit and humor > 21st century.

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