Best of the Web 2009

by Abbott, Lee K.; Leslie, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9780981589978
• ISBN10: 0981589979
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Dzanc Books

Summary

Praise for the Best of the Web series:"Such a development could not have come at a better time for online literary publishing."-NewPages"The book is heartily significant, featuring work that is sometimes surprising . . . and sometimes exhilarating-not unlike the Web itself."- Los Angeles Times"The book, which canvasses both fiction and poetry, really cooks . . . in the melding of the two genres. . . . The Internet is built for this work: short and weird, just what oners"s attention span wants when clicking through. And Almond and Leslie wisely pick up on that, making the book worth paging through, as well."- Time Out Chicago"Though publishing online provides us the opportunity to present fiction free from economic imperative, permitting us, our authors, and our readers to relish in the experiment of expression, one of our great regrets is forgoing the sensation of binding it, printing it, holding the work we proudly select in our hands. Then along comes Dzanc Books, and this gift of a book, Best of the Web, that feels, to us, like the presentation of an award."-Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose, editors, Hotel St. George PressThis Best of the Web anthology is the first comprehensive print anthology to represent the vast array of contemporary online literature on an annual basis, bringing the world of web journals to a greater audience.

Author Biography

A professor of creative writing at Ohio State University, Lee K. Abbott has published five short story collections and a collected stories collection of his work. He has won many awards over the course of his career and summers in New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	p. i
Introduction: The Best of the Web 2009	p. iv
The Boy and the Colgante	p. 7
The World as You Left It	p. 14
LAndlord	p. 15
When My Girlfriend Lost the Weight	p. 16
An Interview	p. 35
Chamber Music	p. 37
Theodolite's Survey	p. 40
Why	p. 43
An Ugly Man	p. 45
Powwow	p. 47
Hives	p. 49
Macedonio Fernández: The Man Who Invented Borges	p. 50
On the Other Hand	p. 64
Amongst the Cares	p. 76
Babyfat	p. 77
Melville and Bartleby: Facing the End of an Audience	p. 79
An Interview	p. 95
Colors	p. 97
Photographer	p. 105
Hidden Child # 9	p. 107
More Than Just a Stolid Pump	p. 116
The American	p. 122
The Right Passengers	p. 124
Krazy	p. 131
Forearm and Elbow	p. 133
Hive	p. 135
2 Stories	p. 136
An Interview	p. 140
The Dance of Curb Chickens	p. 142
Bounty	p. 144
Little Witches	p. 145
Belly	p. 146
I'm Not Supposed to Wear This Gorilla Costume	p. 148
An Interview	p. 149
Anything Was Anything	p. 150
Catching Hell: The Joe Holt Integration Story	p. 153
No Knocks	p. 166
To All Those Who Say Write What You Know	p. 176
How Catholic	p. 178
A Floater on the Course	p. 180
Alopecia and the grizzly bear	p. 183
The Stare	p. 184
Our Father in the Belly of the Fish	p. 185
Rock Paste	p. 189
Silver and Blue	p. 191
Amputation	p. 208
Cannibal Love	p. 210
Absent Without Leave	p. 217
When He Died	p. 219
I Would Tell You	p. 225
The Unrealistic Philosopher	p. 226
Ball Lightning	p. 229
Geographies	p. 234
Little Mother	p. 238
January in December	p. 242
Two Among Many	p. 260
Mandible	p. 267
New Joe	p. 278
Four Alabama Seasons	p. 283
Second Sunday	p. 285
The Fridge	p. 288
Spectrogram/Repairs	p. 293
Knickers	p. 298
2008 Notable Works	p. 303
Contributors' Notes	p. 308
Index of Online Journals 2008-09	p. 320
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