The Best of Brevity: Pre-Ordering Now Available
August 20, 2020 § 8 Comments
We are proud and happy to announce that The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction is now available for preordering (and free shipping too.)
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 many more (listed here), The Best of Brevity offers unparalleled diversity of style, form, and perspective for those interested in reading, writing, or teaching the flash nonfiction form.
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Hooray! Can’t wait to read the collection. Congratulations!
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I’m looking forward to reading the collection!
Exciting!
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Wonderful!
Would be good to give us a In-the-2020 moment profile of the writers:
What is the gender and diversity breakdown:
How many women/ men writers?
How many African-American vs white vs Latino vs Native American writers?
Gender Parity Breakdown:
Male: 24 (30%)
Female: 54 (68%)
Non-binary: 1 (~1%)
Diversity Parity Breakdown:
Essays by writers of color: 20
Essays by queer-identifying writers: 5
Fantastic–can’t wait to read it!