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Bezig met laden... The Best American Series 2017: 16 Short Stories & Essays (The Best American Series ®)door Houghton Mifflin/ Harcourt Schools
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fiction ** 1/2 The stories are readable, but hardly classic. One of the science fiction entries is a pointed barb at what it means to be Black in America rather than actually being science fiction. The author is clever and has a large vocabulary, but the story goes on to the point of tedium. Non-fiction ****1/2 The non-fiction entries are far stronger. There is a fascinating science story of a woman who diagnosed her own extremely rare medical condition. There is also a very moving sports story of several basketball players from Cameroon, and one from Serbia, who are brought to the US and terribly exploited at a small, scam, not-really college, but end up experiencing the best of what America can be. This one should make you cry. And another story of a man lost in Iceland, who discovers the best of that country's hospitality. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Best American (2017)
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. This special edition contains selections from the following 2017 editions: The Best American Short Stories edited by Meg Wolitzer The Best American Essays edited by Leslie Jamison The Best American Mystery Stories edited by John Sandford The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Sarah Vowell The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Charles Yu The Best American Travel Writing edited by Lauren Collins The Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Hope Jahren The Best American Sports Writing edited by Howard Bryant Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The special guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected - and most popular - of its kind. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Uh, Meghan as I am sure you are thinking, it's called the best series and you're surprised that it was actually good.
Yes. Shut up.
So here's the info, i.e. I copy and pasted the table of contents and put my thoughts in parentheses.
The Best American Short Stories 2017:
FIONA MAAZEL: Let’s Go to the Videotape (jerk dad story)
JESS WALTER: Famous Actor (jerk people have jerk sex with each other's jerk selves)
The Best American Essays 2017:
EMILY MALONEY: Cost of Living (yeah, Americans, I know that like 49% of you or whatever despise Obamacare, but seriously, your multi-payer system is ridiculous, seriously ridiculous);
ALIA VOLZ: Snakebit (ophidiophobia)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017:
TRINA COREY: Flight (murder mystery in a nursing home)
BRENDAN DUBOIS: The Man from Away (revenge fantasy)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017:
VIET DINH: Lucky Dragon (atomic bomb fallout, fiction)
MASHA GESSEN: Autocracy: Rules for Survival (Trump sucks)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017:
JOSEPH ALLEN HILL: The Venus Effect (like Margaret Atwood's Happy Endings, but about race and brutal)
N. K. JEMISIN: The City Born Great (Cities live, didn't really grab me)
The Best American Travel Writing 2017:
STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST: Chiefing in Cherokee (one of the three that left me with a meh, the others being "Rules for Survival" and "The City Born Great".)
DAVID KUSHNER: Land of the Lost (he went to Iceland. I went to Iceland. Hooray!)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017:
SONIA SMITH: Unfriendly Climate (Texas is weird)
DAVID EPSTEIN: The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene (some people are much better researchers than I am)
The Best American Sports Writing 2017:
BOMANI JONES: Kaepernick Is Asking for Justice, Not Peace (I can't remember reading this one, so I guess that might say something about it)
LUKE CYPHERS AND TERI THOMPSON: Lost in America (it was sad, but then it got better, but then I realised there were all these other people not profiled in the story for whom it didn't get better and so I was sad again :( And, either "Lost in America" was the best one in the set or I'm a victim of the recency effect, but "Lost in America" is the piece that stuck with me. That and "The Venus Effect", which is in the middle, so I guess that one is truly, not only brain-trick, memorable.)
The Best American Series 2017 by assorted (like a Quality Street Tin!) went on sale October 3, 2017.
I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. ( )