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The best of Brevity : twenty groundbreaking years of flash nonfiction / edited by Zoë Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore.

Bossiere, Zoë, 1992- (editor.). Moore, Dinty W., 1955- (editor.).

Summary:

"How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal readers regularly return to for insightful essays from skilled writers at every stage of their careers. Featuring examples of nonfiction forms such as memoir, narrative, lyric, braided, hermit crab, and hybrid, The Best of Brevity brings you 84 of the best-loved and most memorable reader favorites, collected in print for the first time. Compressed to their essence, these essays glint with drama, grief, love, and anger, as well as innumerable other lived intensities, resulting in an anthology that is as varied as it is unforgettable, leaving the reader transformed. With contributions from Krys Malcolm Belc, Jenny Boully, Brian Doyle, Roxane Gay, Daisy Hernández, Michael Martone, Ander Monson, Patricia Park, Kristen Radtke, Diane Seuss, Abigail Thomas, Jia Tolentino, and so many more, The Best of Brevity offers unparalleled diversity of style, form, and perspective for those interested in reading, writing, or teaching the flash nonfiction form"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781941628232
ISBN: 1941628230
Physical Description: 256 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

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Formatted Contents Note:

The shape emptiness / Brenda Miller -- Thumb-sucking girl / Sonja Livingston -- The cruelty we delivered : an apology / Ira Sukrungruang -- I hoisted them, two drug dealers, I guess that's what they were / Diane Seuss -- Wings / Daisy Hernández -- Imagining foxes / Brian Doyle -- Women these days / Amy Butcher -- Forgetting / Abigail Thomas -- Poster children / Sandra Gail Lambert -- Letter to a future lover / Ander Monson -- The birthday place / Rebecca McClanahan -- A most dangerous game / Alexis Wiggins -- Mother's tongue / Samuel Autman -- Wide open spaces / Kathryn Miller -- Blood; Quantum / Danielle Geller -- Girl fight / Joey Franklin -- White lies / Erin Murphy -- I remain very sorry for what I did to the little black kitten / Jenny Boully -- Shower songs / Brian Trapp -- My cousin's backyard / Deborah Taffa -- Holy / Lori Jakiela -- Fluency / Jamila Osman -- Cheekbones / Patricia Park -- If you find a mouse on a glue trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith -- Lag time / Steven Church -- The sloth / Jill Christman -- Place / Robert Root -- Transgender day of remembrance : a found essay / Torrey Peters -- Intro to creative writing / Dani Johannesen -- A brief atmospheric future / Matthew Gavin Frank -- Counting bats / Thao Thai -- Openings / Jennifer Sinor -- How to leave a room / Marcia Aldrich -- Sunrise / Joe Oestreich -- Post-mortem / Traci Brimhall -- An Indian in Yoga class : finding imbalance / Rajpreet Heir -- Genesi / Bret Lott -- The blind prophets of Easter Island / Tessa Fontaine -- I go back to Berryman's / Vincent Scarpa -- \'in-glish\ / Christina Tang-Bernas -- Berfore sunrise / Erika Dreifus -- Dropping babies / J.D. Schraffenberger -- Solving for X / Pam Durban -- So little / Josey Foo -- Suspended / Kyle Minor -- Fish / Nicole Walker -- When a 17-year-old-checkout clerk in small town Michigan hits on me, I think about the girl I loved at 17 / Krys Malcolm Belc -- Bear fragments / Christine Byl -- Recesses / Mark Stricker -- Katy Perry is crooning and won't stop just because I did / Shuly Xóchitl Cawood -- Five from Kyrgrgzstan / Jia Tolentino -- How to discuss race as a white person / Sam Stokley -- Hairy credentials / Nicole Cyris -- Alive / Laurie Lynn Drummond -- Perdition / Kristen Radtke -- Success and prosperity / Bouiyan Chen, translated by Jennie Chia-Hui Chu -- Quinto sol / Michelle Otero -- Devotion / Sarah J. Lin -- Girl/Thing / Anna Vodicka -- Ace of spades / Jule Marie Wade -- Some space / Michael Martone -- An address to my fellow faculty who have asked me to speak about my work / A. Papatya Bucak -- Confession / Michelle Valois -- Beach city / Jaquira Díaz -- On being a trucker / Lia Purpura -- How to erase an Arab / Julie Hakim Azzam -- Milk for free / Deesha Philyaw -- Surrender / Nina Boutsikaris -- The salmon / Charlotte Gullick -- The things I've lost / Brian Arundel -- The farmers' almanac best days for breeding / John A McDermott -- All or nothing, self-portrait at twenty-seven / Jill Talbot -- Talk big / Lee Martin -- Open season / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher -- Chronology of the body / Sam Kiss -- On the occurrence of March 20, 1981 and on the occurrences of every night after / B.J. Hollars -- Meanness / Beverly Donofrio -- When we played / Matthew Komatsu -- The hear as a torn muscle / Randon Billings Noble -- Breathless / Heather Sellers -- The domestic apologies / Dustin Parsons -- The lunch lady and her three-headed dogs / Sonya Huber -- Some things about that day / Debra Marquart -- There are distances between us / Roxane Gay.