Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Eggers, Dave.
2. Stevens, Sufjan.

Description

1. xvii, 353 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.

Series statement

1. The best American series

Uniform title

1. Best American series.

Alternative title

1. Nonrequired reading 2007

Subject

1. Short stories
2. American wit and humor > 21st century
3. American prose literature > 21st century
4. Short stories, American

Contents

1. 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 -- Lotería / Kevin A. Gonzáles -- 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.

Call number

1. JFD 12-5223

Title

1. The best American nonrequired reading 2007 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Sufjan Stevens.

Imprint

1. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Series

1. The best American series
2. Best American series.

Added author

1. Eggers, Dave.
2. Stevens, Sufjan.

Other form:

1. Online version: Best American nonrequired reading 2007. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007 (OCoLC)681149921

ISBN

1. 0618902767
2. 9780618902767
3. 9780618902811 (pbk.)
4. 0618902813 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JFD 12-5223