The best American nonrequired reading 2009
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects.
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| Language: | English |
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Boston [Mass.] :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2009.
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| Series: | Best American series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Marjane Satrapi
- Best American titles of books published in 2008
- Best American titles of poems published in 2008
- Best American censorship blunder
- Best American festival names
- Best American letter to the editor
- Best American college annual alumni reports from 2008
- Best American new band names
- Best American hair analysis narrative
- Best American anonymous postcards
- Best American bank heists
- Best American lawsuits
- Best American Craigslist items and offers to barter
- Best American police blotter items for Johnson County, Kansas
- Best American karate tribute
- Best American farmer's calendar column
- Best American kids' letters to Obama
- Best American comic by a French artist
- Captioning for the blind / Rebecca Bengal
- Relations / Eula Biss
- Triplet / Susan Breen
- Diary of a fire lookout / Philip Connors
- Everything I know about my family on my mother's side / Nathan Englander
- The ticking is the bomb / Nick Flynn
- David foster Wallace / Jonathan Franzen
- Monster / Rebekah Frumkin
- Wild berry blue / Rivka Galchen
- A product of this town / J. Malcolm Garcia
- Your exhausted heart / Anne Gisleson
- The chameleon / David Grann
- Boomtown, Iraq / Denis Johnson
- Million year boom / Tom Kaczynski
- The temp / Amelia Kahaney
- The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai
- The good word / Yannick Murphy
- Mississippi drift / Matthew Power
- The outlaw bride / K.G. Schneider
- How to work a locker room / Michelle Seaton
- Further notes on my unfortunate condition / Nick St. John.
