Presents essays about sports chosen from magazines and newspapers published in 2011, on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing.
A collection of short fiction and nonfiction writings from mainstream and alternative American periodicals that features an introduction by Walter Mosley and selections chosen by Dave Eggers and some of his students from his writing center in San Francisco.
Contains twenty pieces of American science writing, selected as the best of 2007 by editor Gina Kolata, and includes articles from across the disciplines of biology, astronomy, anthropology, physics, and genetics.
Mary Roach selects twenty-five works of American science and nature writing as the best of the genre from the year 2010, including pieces by Atul Gawande, Jonathan Franzen, Deborah Blum, Jon Cohen, and others.
