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December 22, 2023 | History

Presents literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Language
English
Pages
486

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Cover of: Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
Cover of: Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
2013, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
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2013
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Table of Contents

Editor's note
Introduction -- Walter Mosley -- Best American American poem from Tin house / -- Sherman Alexie
Best American term paper assignment from
Kurt Vonnegut letters -- Dan Wakefield, editor
Best American anti-war poetry inspired by Kurt Vonnegut from
So it goes -- Katharyn Howd Machan, Robert West, Shari Wagner, and Jim Wise
Best American consumer report from www.yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com -- EDW Lynch
Best American advertisement for a home security system from
Subtropics -- Tim Wirkus
Best American apocryphal discussion between our nation's founding fathers from the
New Yorker -- Teddy Wayne
Best American yada yada yada from @seinfeltoday --
Best American tattoo stories from penandink.tumblr.com -- Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald
Best American comic that ends in arson --
Best American story about a hazardoud, symbolic cesspool from the
Paris review -- Peter Orner
Best American poem about a particle accelerator from
Ninth letter -- Brendan Todt
Best American account of tragedy and nationality from
Throwing stones at the moon -- Sibylla Brodzinsky, Catalina Hoyos, Max Schoening
Finding Oscar: massacre, memory, and justice in Guatemala from
ProPublica -- Ana Arana and Sebastian Rotella
Hannah and Andrew from
Texas monthly -- Pamela Colloff
Black box from the
New Yorker -- Jennifer Egan
Bewildered decisions in times of mercantile terror from the
Paris review -- Jim Gavin
Cuba's new now from
National geographic -- Cynthia Gorney
All due respect from the
New Yorker -- Peter Hessler
Everyone's reading bastard from
Byliner -- Nick Hornby
How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : a rememberance from
Cold drank -- Kiese Laymon
Snake River gorge from
Tin house -- Alexander Maksik
Seven stories about Kenel of Koulèv-ville from the
Iowa review -- Kyle Minor
Casino from
Guernica -- Alix Ohlin
East of the West from
Storyville -- Miroslav Penkov
Two deaths from
Epiphany -- Kim Philley
Human snowball from the
Paris review -- Davy Rothbart
The blind faith of the one-eyed matador from
GQ -- Karen Russell /
Bones from
Southwest review -- Alexis Schaitkin
Falling from
Ecotone -- Andrew Tonkovich
Lorry Raja from
Narrative magazine -- Madhuri Vijay
Contributors' notess --
The best American nonrequired reading committee --
Notable nonrequired reading of 2012 --
About 826 National --
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Edition Notes

"A Mariner original."

Series
Best American series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818.08
Library of Congress
PS501 .B43 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 486 pages
Number of pages
486

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27150932M
Internet Archive
bestamericannonr0000unse_l7j7
ISBN 10
0544105508
ISBN 13
9780544105508
OCLC/WorldCat
823010615

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