Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547819226
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : 826 National
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544569636
Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son, works with group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to select the year's best new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and category-defying gems aimed at readers 15 and up.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618246960
The "fresh anthology of hip American writings" (Forth Worth Morning Star-Telegram) returns this year with a spectacular array of fiction, nonfiction, and humor, drawn from traditional and alternative magazines by Dave Eggers.
Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0547678436
The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others. In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today’s spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, “when we insert our ‘I’ (our eye) to search deeper into someone, something, or ourselves, we are always risking a yawn or a slap, indifference or disdain.” Here are intimate personal essays that examine a range of vital topics, from cancer diagnosis to police brutality, and from devastating natural disasters to the dilemmas of modern medicine. All in all, “the brave voices behind these experiences keep the pages turning” (Kirkus Reviews). The Best American Essays 2011 includes entries by Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens, Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith, Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others.
Author : Laurie Weeks
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558617485
WINNER OF A 2012 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD Selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City. Ranting letters to Judy Davis and Sylvia Plath, an unrequited fixation on a straight best friend, exalted nightclub epiphanies, devastating morning-after hangovers--Zipper Mouth chronicles the exuberance and mortification of a junkie, and transcends the chaos of everyday life.
Author : Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2002-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393323854
Samples the full range of Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, history lessons unlearned, our parochial human perspective, humanity's place in the cosmos, and the illusory character of art. Szymborska's voice emerges as that of a humanitarian graced with a gift for coaxing the extraordinary out of the ordinary in life and language.
Author : Javier O. Huerta
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1558857486
This creative combination of poetry, fiction and non-fiction focusing on grocery storesin a mix of English and Spanishcreates an epic story of immigration.
Author : 826 National
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0358093163
Literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and alternative comics.
Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0547678460
The New York Times–bestselling author of Packing for Mars presents fascinating essays by Jonathan Lethem, Jaron Lanier, Malcom Gladwell and others. Good science writing, as Mary Roach explains in her introduction, is a cure for ignorance and fallacy. But great science writing adds honey—in the form of engaging characters, stories, and wit—to make the medicine go down. This anthology reveals the essential humanity in our endless quest for knowledge and understanding. From a study of avian mating habits with unintended political implications to a sober exploration of the panic surrounding artificial intelligence, The Best Science and Nature Writing 2011 offers food for thought in a variety of flavors. The Best Science and Nature Writing 2011 includes entries by Deborah Blum, Burkhard Bilger, Ian Frazier, David H. Freedman, Atul Gawande, Stephen Hawking, Christopher Ketcham, Jill Sisson Quinn, Oliver Sachs, and others.
Author : Molly Brodak
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1785781049
'Raw, poetic and compulsively readable ... I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know.' Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help The summer she turned thirteen, Molly Brodak's father was arrested for robbing eleven banks. In time, the image she held of him would unravel further, as more and more unexpected facets of his personality came to light. Bandit is her attempt to discover what, exactly, is left, when the most fundamental relationship of your life turns out to have been built on falsehoods. It is also a scrupulously honest account of learning how to trust again, and to rebuild the very idea of family from scratch. Refusing to fence off the trickier sides of her father's character, Brodak tries to find, through crystalline, spellbinding prose, a version of him that does not rely on the easy answers but allows him to be: an unknowable and incomprehensible whole – who is also her father. Unforgettable, moving, and utterly relatable, Bandit is a story of the unpredictable complexity of family.
