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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
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How we define what’s best in any particular area is extremely subjective, but some editors bravely rise to the task, sorting through and trying to make judgments about the year’s best. Here are some of this year’s selections, as well as some award winners for the year 2007.
Every year the publisher Houghton Mifflin publishes volumes in their Best American Series. Here are the volumes for 2007:
The Best American Short Stories 2007
Edited and with an introduction by Stephen King (Heidi Pitlor, series editor)
The Best American Comics 2007
Edited and with an introduction by Chris Ware (Anne Elizabeth Moore, series editor)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
Edited by Dave Eggers, with an introduction by Sufjan Stevens
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007
Edited and with an introduction by Carl Hiaasen (Otto Penzler, series editor)
The Best American Essays 2007
Edited and with an introduction by David Foster Wallace (Robert Atwan, series editor)
The Best American Sports Writing 2007
Edited and with an introduction by David Maraniss (Glenn Stout, series editor)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007
Edited and with an introduction by Richard Preston (Tim Folger, series editor)
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2007
Edited by Philip Zaleski, with an introduction by Harvey Cox
The Best American Travel Writing 2007
Edited and with an introduction by Susan Orlean (Jason Wilson, series editor)
Here are some other bests from other publishers:
The Best American Erotica 2007
Edited by Susie Bright
Horror: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition
Edited by Rich Horton
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection
Edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition
Edited by Rich Horton
The 2007 Pulitzer Prize winners included:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction)
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire (Drama)
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (History)
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography Of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby
Applegate (Biography)
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Poetry)
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and The Road To 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (General Nonfiction)
The 2007 National Book Award winners are:
Tree of S
moke by Denis Johnson (Fiction)
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (Nonfiction)
Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Haas (Poetry)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Young People’s Literature)
And of course Doris Lessing is this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize For Literature.
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