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  • The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction by Zo Bossiere book cover
  • The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction by Zo Bossiere book cover
  • The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction by Zo Bossiere book cover
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction

by Zo Bossiere

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Many forms of nonfiction in 750 words

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Many forms of nonfiction in 750 words

Gathering 84 essays from *Brevity*, this anthology makes concise literary nonfiction its subject as well as its form. The pieces span memoir, narrative, lyric, braided, hermit crab, and hybrid nonfiction, offering a view of how varied approaches can work within a strict 750-word limit. Across the collection, the source describes subjects including grief, love, anger, and other lived experiences. The book also serves as a print collection of reader favorites from a journal founded in 1997, bringing examples of its short-form work together in one volume.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in flash nonfiction and short literary essays.
  • Writers exploring different forms of memoir and creative nonfiction.
  • Readers who want a varied anthology rather than a single continuous narrative.

Themes

Flash nonfictionMemoir and hybrid formsLived experienceCompression and literary form

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Book overview

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, 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 Hern

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