| Authors: |
Eggers, Dave.
Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
American prose literature -- 21st century.
American essays -- 21st century.
Short stories, American.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2011. |
| Description: |
xviii, 498 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780547577432 0547577435 |
| Notes: |
"A Mariner original." |
| Contents: |
Best American fax from Don DeLillo -- Best American Wikileaks revelations -- Best American new band names -- Best American very short story -- Best American even shorter story -- Best American lawsuits -- Best American adjectives, nouns, and verbs used in reporting on the Gulf oil spill of 2010 -- Best American new entries in the O.E.D. beginning with the letter H -- Best American profile of an international pop star -- Best American commune names -- Best American ominous place names -- Best American Call of duty handles -- Best American WiFi network names -- Best American best American categories that got cut -- Best American Mark Twain quotes -- Best American poems written in response to Arizona Senate bill 1070 -- Second lives / Daniel Alarcón -- An oral history of Adama Bah / Adama Bah -- The women / Tom Barbash -- We show what we have learned -- Clare Beams -- Art of the steal / Joshuah Bearman -- Le Paris! / Sloane Crosley -- Game of her life / Tim Crothers -- Solitude and leadership / William Deresiewicz -- The deep / Anthony Doerr -- Orange / Neil Gaiman -- Butt and Bhatti / Mohammed Hanif -- Roger Ebert : the essential man / Chris Jones -- What killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? / Charlie LeDuff -- Weber's head / J. Robert Lennon -- For us surrender is out of the question / Mac McClelland -- A hole in the head / Joyce Carol Oates -- The suicide catcher / Michael Paterniti -- Homing / Henrietta Rose-Innes -- Pleiades / Anjali Sachdeva -- The imaginist / Olivier Schrauwen -- Mid-life cowboy / James Spring -- Market day / James Sturm -- The boys' school, or the news from Spain / Joan Wickersham. |
| Series: |
Best American series.
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