The best of Brevity : twenty groundbreaking years of flash nonfiction / edited by Zoë Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bossiere, Zoë, 1992- editor.

Moore, Dinty W., 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xvii, 256 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2020.

Summary:

"How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal readers regularly return to for insightful essays from skilled writers at every stage of their careers. Featuring examples of nonfiction forms such as memoir, narrative, lyric, braided, hermit crab, and hybrid, The Best of Brevity brings you 84 of the best-loved and most memorable reader favorites, collected in print for the first time. Compressed to their essence, these essays glint with drama, grief, love, and anger, as well as innumerable other lived intensities, resulting in an anthology that is as varied as it is unforgettable, leaving the reader transformed. With contributions from Krys Malcolm Belc, Jenny Boully, Brian Doyle, Roxane Gay, Daisy Hernández, Michael Martone, Ander Monson, Patricia Park, Kristen Radtke, Diane Seuss, Abigail Thomas, Jia Tolentino, and so many more, The Best of Brevity offers unparalleled diversity of style, form, and perspective for those interested in reading, writing, or teaching the flash nonfiction form"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Shape Of Emptiness / Brenda Miller

Thumb-Sucking Girl / Sonja Livingston

The Cruelty We Delivered: An Apology / Ira Sukrungruang

I Hoisted Them, Two Drug Dealers, I Guess That's What They Were / Diane Seuss

Wings / Daisy Hernandez

Imagining Foxes / Brian Doyle

Women These Days / Amy Butcher

Forgetting / Abigail Thomas

Poster Children / Sandra Gail Lambert

Letter To A Future Lover / Ander Monson

The Birthday Place / Rebecca Mcclanahan

A Most Dangerous Game / Alexis Wiggins

Mother's Tongue / Samuel Autman

Wide Open Spaces / Kathryn Miller

Blood; Quantum / Danielle Geller

Girl Fight / Joey Franklin

White Lies / Erin Murphy

I Remain Very Sorry For What I Did To The Little Black Kitten / Jenny Boully

Shower Songs / Brian Trapp

My Cousin's Backyard / Deborah Taffa

Holy / Lori Jakiela

Fluency / Jamila Osman

Cheekbones / Patricia Park

If You Find A Mouse On A Glue Trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith

Lag Time / Steven Church

The Sloth / Jill Christman

Place / Robert Root

Transgender Day Of Remembrance: A Found Essay / Torrey Peters

Intro To Creative Writing / Dani Johannesen

A Brief Atmospheric Future / Matthew Gavin Frank

Counting Bats / Thao Thai

Openings / Jennifer Sinor

How To Leave A Room / Marcia Aldrich

Sunrise / Joe Oestreich

Post-Mortem / Traci Brimhall

An Indian In Yoga Class: Finding Imbalance / Rajpreet Heir

Genesis / Bret Lott

The Blind Prophets Of Easter Island / Tessa Fontaine

I Go Back To Berryman's / Vincent Scarpa

\'In-Glish\ / Christina Tang-Bernas

Before Sunrise / Erika Dreifus

Dropping Babies / J.D. Schraffenberger

Solving For X / Pam Durban

So Little / Josey Foo

Suspended / Kyle Minor

Fish / Nicole Walker

When A 17-Year-Old Checkout Clerk In Small Town Michigan Hits On Me, I Think About The Girl 1 Loved At 17 / Krys Malcolm Belc

Bear Fragments / Christine Byl

Recesses / Mark Strieker

Katy Perry Is Crooning And Won't Stop Just Because I Did / Shuly Xochitl Cawood

Five From Kyrgyzstan / Jia Tolentino

How To Discuss Race As A White Person / Sam Stokley

Hairy Credentials / Nicole Cyrus

Alive / Laurie Lynn Drummond

Perdition / Kristen Radtke

Success And Prosperity / Bouiyan Chen

Quinto Sol / Michelle Otero

Devotion / Sarah J. Lin

Girl/Thing / Anna Vodicka

Ace Of Spades / Julie Marie Wade

Some Space / Michael Martone

An Address To My Fellow Faculty Who Have Asked Me To Speak About My Work / Ayse Papatya Bucak

Confession / Michelle Valois

Beach City / Jaquira Diaz

On Being A Trucker / Lia Purpura

How To Erase An Arab / Julie Hakim Azzam

Milk For Free / Deesha Philyaw

Surrender / Nina Boutsikaris

The Salmon / Charlotte Gullick

The Things I've Lost / Brian Arundel

The Farmers' Almanac Best Days For Breeding / John A. Mcdermott

All Or Nothing, Self-Portrait At 27 / Jill Talbot

Talk Big / Lee Martin

Open Season / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Chronology Of The Body / Sam Kiss

On The Occurrence Of March 20, 1981 And On The Occurrences Of Every Night After / B.J. Hollars

Meanness / Beverly Donofrio

When We Played / Matthew Komatsu

The Heart As A Torn Muscle / Randon Billings Noble

Breathless / Heather Sellers

The Domestic Apologies / Dustin Parsons

The Lunch Lady And Her Three-Headed Dogs / Sonya Huber

Some Things About That Day / Debra Marquart

There Are Distances Between Us / Roxane Gay

Further Resources for Writers, Readers, and Teachers of Flash Nonfiction

On Brevity and Teaching the Flash Essay

A Guide to Pairing The Best of Brevity with The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction

Alternate Table of Contents by Subject and Form.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: The best of Brevity

ISBN:

9781941628232

1941628230

OCLC:

1183399586

Publisher Number:

99986913370