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. 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, & hybrid, The Best of Brevity brings you 84 of the best-loved & most memorable reader favorites, collected in print for the first time. Compressed to their essence, these essays glint with drama, grief, love, & 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, & so many more, The Best of Brevity offers unparalleled diversity of style, form, & perspective for those interested in reading, writing, or teaching the flash nonfiction form.Zoë Bossiere: a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, with a dual concentration in creative writing & rhetoric & composition. She is managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction & a podcast host for the New Books Network’s Literature channel, where she interviews authors about their debut books of nonfiction.Dinty W. Moore: author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize. His other books: The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes, & Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy.
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