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Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 by Lisa Unger; Steph Cha
Category: Crime & Adventure | Series: Best American Ser.
“This form has a special kind of magic, the ability to transport you quickly, intensely, to capture character, time, place, and story with immediacy,” writes guest editor Lisa Unger in her introduction. The transporting stories in this year’s The Best American Mystery and Suspense are populated by those ...Show more
Best American Poetry 2017 by David Lehman; Natasha Trethewey
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Best American Poetry Ser.
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers "a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable" (Robert Pinsky). Librarian o ...Show more
Best American Poetry 2018 by David Lehman; Dana Gioia
Category: Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Poetry Ser.
Celebrating thirty years, the 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry--"a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune)--collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia. In a review of Best American Poetry 2017, The Washington Po ...Show more
The Best American Comics 2018 by Phoebe Gloeckner (Editor); Bill Kartalopoulos (Editor)
Category: Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
"I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodic ...Show more
The Best American Comics 2019 by Jillian Tamaki (Editor); Bill Kartalopoulos (Editor)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year.Jillian Tamaki, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller This One Summer, selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, colle ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2018 by Hilton Als
Category: Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
The Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" (New York Times) to the task.
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2020 by André Aciman (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
Category: Biography | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. Andr Aciman "quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years" (Los Angeles Review of Books) and one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, selects th ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2021 by Robert Atwan (Editor); Kathryn Schulz (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz "A warm, witty, and welcome presence who confides in her readers" (Daniel Gilbert), TheNew Yorker's Kathryn Schulz selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examp ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2022 by Robert Atwan
Category: Biography | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
The Best American Food Writing 2018 by Ruth Reichl (Editor); Silvia Killingsworth (Editor)
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
New York Times best-selling author and renowned food critic Ruth Reichl selects the year's top food writing from those who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouth-watering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.