Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2011 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2012 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by best-selling author Alexander Chee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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Summary: Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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Contents: The presidential election of 2008 -- Our Michelle -- Reverend Wright revisited -- The United States, past and present -- Personalities -- Profiles -- Race talk -- Sports -- Rita Dove -- African American literature -- Racial identity, enslavement, and the law -- In memoriam: John Hope Franklin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: One World, Ballantine Books 2010

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Contents: Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction: deciderization 2007 - a special report / David Foster Wallace -- Werner / Jo Ann Beard -- The freedom to offend / Ian Burma -- Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner -- Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero -- An orgy of power / George Gessert -- What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell -- Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif -- Operation...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007

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Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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Summary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2011 in graphic novels.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011

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Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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Summary: For more than twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has curated the year’s finest sports journalism. Continuing the tradition in a long line of notable guest editors is Rick Telander, acclaimed journalist, author, and champion of the written word. His choices are defined by one shared thread: effort, on the part of athletes and writers alike. The physical strength it takes to play...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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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....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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Summary: Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2017, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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