The best American nonrequired reading, 2004 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Viggo Mortensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eggers, Dave

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Best American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Short stories.

American prose literature--21st century.

American prose literature.

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxx, 407 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Summary:

Presents the finest literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including both fiction and nonfiction dealing with a broad spectrum of subjects from magazines from the "New Yorker" and "Rolling Stone" to the "Onion."

Contents:

Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

City of clowns / Daniel Alarcoń

Zoanthropy / David Benioff

We have a pope! / Christopher Buckley

What you eat / Ben Ehrenreich

Vickie, Lacey, Ray, Sharon, Corey, Derek, Carol and Dave / Eve Englezos and Joshua Moutray

The futile pursuit of happiness / Jon Gertner

Running for his life / Michael Hall

Poor sailor / Sammy Harkham

Good world / John Haskell

The minor wars / Kaui Hart Hemmings

Night Train / Thom Jones

Bones / Tom Kealey

How they took my body apart and made another me / Robert Kelly

Secret names / David Mamet

Hidden lives of lakes / Gine Ochsner

Sixteen Jackies / Lance Olsen

The smoothest way is full of stones / Julie Orringer

The fifteen-year layover / Michael Paterniti

Big brother / Paula W. Peterson

The promise of something / Cheryl Printup

Full house / David Sedaris

Transmissions from camp trans / Michelle Tea.

Other Format:

Online version: Best American nonrequired reading, 2004.

ISBN:

0618341226

9780618341221

0618341234

9780618341238

OCLC:

56676510