Best American series.

"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

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