The best American nonrequired reading 2018
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
810.8/BEST
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781328465818, 1328465810, 9781328465818
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
"A Mariner original" --title page
This anthology presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2017, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative comics
CONTENTS
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- David Party /
David Leavitt -- 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 /
László Krasznahorkai -- Love, Death & Trousers: Eight Found Stories /
Laura Francis and Alexander Masters -- On Future and Working Through What Hurts /
Hanif Abdurraqib -- Universe Would Be So Cruel /
Souvankham Thammavongsa -- A Love Story /
Samantha Hunt