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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction
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Readers
87/100Critics
81/100Scholars
Author:
Zoë Bossiere, Dinty W. Moore
Publisher:
Rose Metal Press
Date:
November 17, 2020
How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. The Best of Brevity brings together 84 of the best-loved and most memorable reader favorites.
What The Reviewers Say
There is no formula; these essays of 750 or fewer words include lists and 'found' essays, lyric essays, researched essays, even graphic memoir. They work because they are efficient on the sentence level, cutting to the rhetorical nub without sacrificing their power to evoke.
These micro essays explore a diversity of perspectives.
... marvelous, diverse.
