{"id":8431,"date":"2020-07-01T05:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2020-07-01T05:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:49:44","slug":"collective-nouns-for-humans-in-the-wild-in-the-norton-reader-15th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8431","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild&#8221; in The Norton Reader, 15th Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NORTON-READER-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NORTON-READER-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NORTON-READER.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><strong>I&#8217;m very proud to announce that my flash\/essay\/hybrid piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/jellyfishreview.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/13\/collective-nouns-for-humans-in-the-wild-by-kathy-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild&#8221;<\/a> is featured in the newest edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwnorton.com\/books\/9780393420531\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Norton Reader<\/a> released today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I find myself in astonishing company, with works by: <em>Claudia Rankine, David Shields, George Orwell, Rebecca Solnit, Roxane Gay, Maya Angelou, Leslie Jamison, Stephen King, David Sedaris, Joan Didion, Chimamanda Adiche, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jhumpa Lahiri, E. B. White, Colson Whitehead, Teju Cole, Pico Iyer, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Anthony Bourdain, Nora Ephron, Edwidge Danticat, Langston Hughes, Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John F. Kennedy<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Collective Nouns&#8221; has been widely shared, discussed, and taught since its initial publication in <em>Jellyfish Review<\/em> in 2017:<\/strong>\u00a0It was selected by Sheila Heti for <em>Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, <\/em>by Aimee Bender for<em> Best Small Fictions 2018,<\/em> and reprinted in <em>Stone Gathering: A Reader <\/em>(French Press Editions). Additionally, the piece is forthcoming in <em>Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun Loving Country<\/em> (Swallow Publishing), <i>Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer&#8217;s Guide and Anthology <\/i>(Bloomsbury), and <i>Literature: A Portable Anthology <\/i>(Bedford\/St. Martin&#8217;s\/Macmillan Learning)<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very proud to announce that my flash\/essay\/hybrid piece, &#8220;Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild&#8221; is featured in the newest edition of The Norton Reader released today. I find myself in astonishing company, with works by: Claudia Rankine, David Shields, George Orwell, Rebecca Solnit, Roxane Gay, Maya Angelou, Leslie Jamison, Stephen King, David Sedaris, 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