Summary: The Best American Poetry is not just another anthology; it serves as a guide to who’s who and what’s happening in American poetry and is an eagerly awaited publishing event each year. With Trethewey’s insightful touch and genius for plumbing the depths of history and personal experience to shape striking verse, The Best American Poetry 2017 is another brilliant addition to the series.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESSummary: The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, "The poems...have a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESSummary: The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESSummary: The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, in galleries, minicomics, and the web.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESSummary: For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESSummary: Best American Comics 2016 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web to make a collection that is full of varied, provocative feats of cartooning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Guest editor Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers, works with a group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to select The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. The BANR Committee gathers weekly in the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, blogs, transcripts, and anything else that strikes their fancy....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESSummary: For twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the past year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Wright Thompson, a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN: The Magazine, proves more than up to the task by curating this truly exceptional collection. The only...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 BESSummary: An anthology of top-selected sports writing from the past year is culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty publications as well as a variety of leading sports blogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 BESSummary: Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015