The Best American Sports Writing 2005The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Sports

from the acclaimed author of The Clergyman’s Wife and The Heiress

filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance—witty and macabre at once

New York Times bestselling author of Family Reunion

Sophia Lee and her best friend

What did time mean to a farmer on the Rhine in 800 A

With charming paintings from award-winning naturalist artist Wendell Minor

This writerly tour-de-force features a satisfyingly varied selection of topics

never its complete master

From internationally bestselling author and retired FBI agent Joe Navarro

when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now … to other ways of being

seven kindlings search for purpose and identity as they prepare for one final battle

and lingering shrubs and blooms in the wild are a telltale indication of where earlier dwellings might have been