Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547595964
A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs, published during 2011. Edited by Dave Eggers.
Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 32,22 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 : Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0544618858
"Unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with." —Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading." As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.
Author : 826 National
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 36,69 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 : 32,96 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 : Jeff Ragsdale
Publisher : Amazon Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 9781612183244
In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he'd get a dozen calls; instead he got hundreds, and then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. The calls came from all over the country and from as far away as Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Taiwan, and Australia. Jeff spoke to as many people as he could, answering his phone all day long. Here are the conversations, texts, and voicemails of a particular moment in time - a hilarious, dark, intimate portrait of the way we live now. "OMG I love this It's so Russian - very reminiscent of the Chekhov story 'Complaint Book' (entries in a complaint book at the railway station)." - Elif Batuman, Author of The Possessed "With Reality Hunger, David Shields offered us a manifest, yet unlike most manifestoes, Reality Hunger actually changed the world. Here, by teaming up with Ragsdale and Logan, Shields has now embodied his ethos - we have crossed over the threshold and are now strangely, terrifyingly, beautifully - in this transformed world." - Nick Flynn, Author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Author : Roxane Gay
Publisher : Boom! Studios
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1646680367
New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay (World of Wakanda, Difficult Women) adapts her short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” as a full-length graphic novel with writer Tracy Lynne Oliver (This Weekend), and artist Rebecca Kirby (Biopsy.) Expanding an unforgettable world where a tragic event forever bathes the world in darkness, The Sacrifice of Darkness follows one woman’s powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. This young adult drama challenges notions of identity, guilt, and survival in a graphic novel for fans of On A Sunbeam and Are You Listening?
Author : Laurie Weeks
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 26,59 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 : Jillian Tamaki
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0358067286
Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year. Jillian Tamaki, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller This One Summer, selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today.
Author : Edan Lepucki
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category :
ISBN : 0358093163
An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, fifteen Bay Area high school students have gathered each week in the basement of an independent publishing house to pore over online and print literary journals, magazines, books, plays, and graphic novels. They read things they couldn't shake and engaged in deep conversations about how good writing brings people together, no matter what else is happening around the world. With the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki they have compiled The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019.
