The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010

by Eggers, Dave

• ISBN13: 9780547241630
• ISBN10: 0547241631
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-05
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected - and most popular - of its kind. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney’s and a cofounder of 826 National, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for youth, located in seven cities across the United States. He is the author of four books, including What Is the What and How We Are Hungry.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Best American Woman Comedy Piece Written by a Woman: From www.therumpus.net	p. 3
Best American Sentences on Page 50 of Books Published in 2009	p. 5
Best American Magazine Letters Section: From Newsweek	p. 8
Best American Fast-Food-Related Crimes	p. 10
Best American Gun Magazine Headlines	p. 11
Best American Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: From Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak	p. 13
Best American New Patents: From United States Patent and Trademark Office	p. 14
Best American Tweets: From www.twitter.com	p. 16
Best American Letter to the Editor: From Bidoun	p. 17
Best American Overqualified Cover Letters: From Overqualified	p. 18
Best American Fictional Character Names	p. 22
Best American 350-Word Story: From Orion	p. 23
Best American Farm Names	p. 24
Best American First Lines of Poems Published in 2009	p. 26
Best American Journal Article Titles Published in 2009	p. 28
Best American Illustrated Missed Connections: From www.missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com	p. 29
Best American New Band Names	p. 37
Best American Lawsuits	p. 38
Best American Poems Written in the Last Decade or So by Soldiers and Citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan	p. 40
War Dances: From War Dances	p. 49
Like I Was Jesus: From Harper's Magazine	p. 75
Burying Jeremy Green: From Shenandoah	p. 95
The Carnival: From Mome	p. 104
Capital Gains: From Granta	p. 137
The Encirclement: From Granta	p. 165
Man of Steel: From Ninth Letter	p. 180
Half Beat: From The Greensboro Review	p. 198
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines: From San Francisco Panorama	p. 213
Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier. The Photographer: From The Photographer, translated from French by Alexis Siegel	p. 238
What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?: From Tin House, translated from Hebrew by Nathan Englander	p. 262
Fed to The Streets: From L.A. Weekly	p. 268
The Tiger's Wife: From The New Yorker	p. 287
Breakdown: From Mome	p. 308
Ideas: From The Paris Review, translated from Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem	p. 316
Vanish: From Wired	p. 323
Seven Months, Ten Days in Captivity: From New York Times	p. 345
Tent City, U. S. A.: From GQ	p. 395
The Nice Little People: From Zoetrope: All-Story	p. 431
Freedom: From Boston Review	p. 439
Contributors' Notes	p. 456
The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee	p. 463
Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2009	p. 472
About 826 National	p. 479
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