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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2000-]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans are traveling each year for business, pleasure, and especially adventure. Our fascination with travel has never been so well represented as in this new addition to the Best American series: a wide-ranging compendium of the best travel writing published in 1999, culled from more than three hundred magazines, newspapers, and...
Series
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the best in graphic storytelling and literary comics, a cutting-edge collection, guest edited by the award-winning author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, features excerpts from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, from R. and Aline Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Seth, Lynda Barry, Kim Deitch, Gilbert Hernandez, and others."-- provided by publisher.
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burnscartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of theBelieverhas culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the web to create this cutting-edge collection. Featuring the work of such luminaries as Chris Ware, KAZ, and Robert Crumb, this volume is "a genuine...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Neil Gaimanone of the top writers in modern comics and the award-winning author of novels and childrens bookshas culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Internet to create this cutting-edge collection. With entries from luminaries such as Tim Hensley, Michael Kupperman, and Dash Shaw,...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year." -- Publisher's website
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction." The characters in these stories seek to discover something lacking in their life. Their stories...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
"In 'Miss Lora, ' Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the 'Magic Man.' Kirstin Valdez Quade's 'Nemecia'...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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, minicomics, and the Web--to make a unique, stunning collection. Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) called guest editor Scott McCloud 'just about the smartest guy in comics'"--Publisher information.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." — Shelf Awareness for Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as "a new classic
...Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
FEATURING Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Cece Bell, Genevïve Elverum, Ben Katchor, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Julia Wertz, and others. Roz Chast, guest editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her cartoons began appearing in The New Yorker in 1978. Since then she has published hundreds of cartoons and written or illustrated more than a dozen books. Her memoir Cant We Talk About Something More Pleasant? was a #1 New York Times...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
""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, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today." -- Back cover.
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