{"product_id":"the-best-of-brevity-twenty-groundbreaking-years-of-flash-nonfiction-9781941628232","title":"The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary Nonfiction. Flash Nonfiction. Essays. Memoir. Hybrid. How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, \u003cem\u003eBrevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction\u003c\/em\u003e has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, \u003cem\u003eBrevity\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith contributions from Krys Malcolm Belc, Jenny Boully, Brian Doyle, Roxane Gay, Daisy Hern ndez, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE BEST OF BREVITY feels like the condensed energy of a coiled spring. A vibrant collection, dynamic in its exploration and celebration of the flash form.--Karen Babine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead, ' Mark Twain has said. But the writers who have contributed to THE BEST OF BREVITY: TWENTY GROUNDBREAKING YEARS OF FLASH NONFICTION took the time and made the effort. Dinty W. Moore, a pioneer of flash and the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eBrevity, \u003c\/em\u003e and his colleague Zo  Bossiere, have put together a marvelous collection of magic moments and concise ideas that will intrigue, delight, and inspire readers and writers. Each piece is an all-consuming instant, a thought-provoking breath of enlightenment and surprise. These flashes illustrate the power, versatility, and potential of the creative nonfiction genre.--Lee Gutkind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zoe Bossiere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rose Metal Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941628232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBossiere, Zoe:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Zoë Bossiere is a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, with a dual concentration in creative writing and rhetoric and composition. She is managing editor of \u003cem\u003eBrevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction\u003c\/em\u003e and a podcast host for the New Books Network's Literature channel, where she interviews authors about their debut books of nonfiction. Her writing has been published in \u003cem\u003eGuernica, The Rumpus, North Dakota Quarterly, Essay Daily, \u003c\/em\u003e among other places. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoore, Dinty W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dinty W. Moore is the author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eBetween Panic \u0026amp; Desire, \u003c\/em\u003e winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize. His other books include \u003cem\u003eThe Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life.\u003c\/em\u003e Additionally, Moore edited THE ROSE METARL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION: ADVISE AND ESSENTIAL EXERCISES FROM RESPECTED WRITERS, EDITORS, AND TEACHERS (Rose Metal Press, 2012) an anthology of craft essays and writing prompts that works well alongside the essays here in THE BEST OF BRIVITY (Rose Metal Press, 2020). He has published his work in \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Iowa Review, \u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. He is editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eBrevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, \u003c\/em\u003e and has taught writing workshops across the United States as well as in Mexico, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, and Canada.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rose Metal Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39829040922739,"sku":"9781941628232","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9fb4ffb1-e9e9-4566-a367-25e5cb88442b.jpg?v=1644606972","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-best-of-brevity-twenty-groundbreaking-years-of-flash-nonfiction-9781941628232","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}