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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017.

By: Contributor(s): Series: The Best American Series ® SerPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xvi, 375 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781328663801
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Electronic version:: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017LOC classification:
  • PS659.2 .B47 2017
Contents:
Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Note -- Introduction -- Teju Cole: Fable -- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers: One Person Means Alone -- Louise Erdrich: How to Stop a Black Snake -- Smith Henderson: The Trouble -- Meagan Day: Excerpt from Maximum Sunlight -- Sky, Sand, Sky, Sand, Sky, Sand -- The Cascadian Race -- Counter-Eaters -- We Are After Freedom -- Horse Management -- Time Machine -- Maximum Sunlight -- Thunderhead -- Sensitives -- Tiny -- Stuff Out There That Isn't There -- Simon Parkin: So Subtle a Catch -- Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley -- Andrew Sullivan: I Used to be a Human Being -- Viet Dinh: Lucky Dragon -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- VI. -- Kima Jones: Homegoing, AD -- Masha Gessen: Autocracy: Rules for Survival -- Ta-Nehisi Coates: My President Was Black -- I. "Love Will Make You Do Wrong" -- II. He Walked On Ice But Never Fell -- III. "I Decided to Become Part of That World" -- IV. "You Still Gotta Go Back to the Hood" -- V. "They Rode the Tiger" -- VI. "When You Left, You Took All of Me With You" -- Tommy Pico: Excerpt from Nature Poem -- Benjamin Nugent: Hell -- Sonny Liew: The Most Terrible Time of My Life -- Ivan Chistyakov: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard -- Sheila Heti: A Correspondence with Elena Ferrante -- Mark Polanzak: Giant -- Melissa Ragsly: Tattoo -- Miriam Toews: Peace Shall Destroy Many -- David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman: The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil -- William Pannapacker: Selected Tweets from @WernerTwertzog -- Lin-Manuel Miranda: You'll Be Back -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor: Excerpt from Utah, Petitioner v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr. -- I. -- IV. -- Christine Rhein: "Woman Fries and Eats Pet Goldfish After Fight With Husband" -- Casey Jarman: An Oral History of Gabriel DePiero -- I'm Surprised That We Survived Childhood.
"If You Blink, It's Gonna Snap!" -- It Startled Me Awake, But I Didn't Move -- There Was No Feeling, There Was Nothing -- The Voice -- Kid Gloves -- We Didn't Know What to Say -- There Was No Pain -- My Turn to Be Selfish -- My Whole Life, It Was Tony's Life -- I Like the View from Here -- That World Is Gone -- Here's the New Planet You Live On -- Chen Chen: I am reminded via email to submit my preferences for the schedule -- George Saunders: Who Are All These Trump Supporters? -- He Appears -- A Tiny Pissed Voice Rings Out -- I'm Here for an Argument -- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off -- Who Are They? (Part I) -- Who Are They? (Part II) -- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Noemi? -- The Elephant in the Room -- Who Are They? (Part III) -- Who Are They? (Part IV) -- But, Then Again, Come On -- All That Bad Energy Comes Home to Roost -- The Somewhat Better Angels of Our Nature -- Back Matter -- Contributors' Notes -- The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee -- The Nonrequired 2016 Election Appendix -- Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2016 -- About 826 National -- About ScholarMatch -- The Best American Series -- Back Cover -- Spine.
Summary: Best-selling author Sarah Vowell works with a group of high school students to select the year's best new fiction, journalism, poetry, essays, and comics aimed at readers age fifteen and up.
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Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Note -- Introduction -- Teju Cole: Fable -- Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers: One Person Means Alone -- Louise Erdrich: How to Stop a Black Snake -- Smith Henderson: The Trouble -- Meagan Day: Excerpt from Maximum Sunlight -- Sky, Sand, Sky, Sand, Sky, Sand -- The Cascadian Race -- Counter-Eaters -- We Are After Freedom -- Horse Management -- Time Machine -- Maximum Sunlight -- Thunderhead -- Sensitives -- Tiny -- Stuff Out There That Isn't There -- Simon Parkin: So Subtle a Catch -- Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley -- Andrew Sullivan: I Used to be a Human Being -- Viet Dinh: Lucky Dragon -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- VI. -- Kima Jones: Homegoing, AD -- Masha Gessen: Autocracy: Rules for Survival -- Ta-Nehisi Coates: My President Was Black -- I. "Love Will Make You Do Wrong" -- II. He Walked On Ice But Never Fell -- III. "I Decided to Become Part of That World" -- IV. "You Still Gotta Go Back to the Hood" -- V. "They Rode the Tiger" -- VI. "When You Left, You Took All of Me With You" -- Tommy Pico: Excerpt from Nature Poem -- Benjamin Nugent: Hell -- Sonny Liew: The Most Terrible Time of My Life -- Ivan Chistyakov: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard -- Sheila Heti: A Correspondence with Elena Ferrante -- Mark Polanzak: Giant -- Melissa Ragsly: Tattoo -- Miriam Toews: Peace Shall Destroy Many -- David Kaiser and Lee Wasserman: The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil -- William Pannapacker: Selected Tweets from @WernerTwertzog -- Lin-Manuel Miranda: You'll Be Back -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor: Excerpt from Utah, Petitioner v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr. -- I. -- IV. -- Christine Rhein: "Woman Fries and Eats Pet Goldfish After Fight With Husband" -- Casey Jarman: An Oral History of Gabriel DePiero -- I'm Surprised That We Survived Childhood.

"If You Blink, It's Gonna Snap!" -- It Startled Me Awake, But I Didn't Move -- There Was No Feeling, There Was Nothing -- The Voice -- Kid Gloves -- We Didn't Know What to Say -- There Was No Pain -- My Turn to Be Selfish -- My Whole Life, It Was Tony's Life -- I Like the View from Here -- That World Is Gone -- Here's the New Planet You Live On -- Chen Chen: I am reminded via email to submit my preferences for the schedule -- George Saunders: Who Are All These Trump Supporters? -- He Appears -- A Tiny Pissed Voice Rings Out -- I'm Here for an Argument -- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off -- Who Are They? (Part I) -- Who Are They? (Part II) -- How Do You Solve a Problem Like Noemi? -- The Elephant in the Room -- Who Are They? (Part III) -- Who Are They? (Part IV) -- But, Then Again, Come On -- All That Bad Energy Comes Home to Roost -- The Somewhat Better Angels of Our Nature -- Back Matter -- Contributors' Notes -- The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee -- The Nonrequired 2016 Election Appendix -- Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2016 -- About 826 National -- About ScholarMatch -- The Best American Series -- Back Cover -- Spine.

Best-selling author Sarah Vowell works with a group of high school students to select the year's best new fiction, journalism, poetry, essays, and comics aimed at readers age fifteen and up.

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