“Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” in The Norton Reader, 15th Edition

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I’m very proud to announce that my flash/essay/hybrid piece, “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” 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, 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 and more.

“Collective Nouns” has been widely shared, discussed, and taught since its initial publication in Jellyfish Review in 2017: It was selected by Sheila Heti for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, by Aimee Bender for Best Small Fictions 2018, and reprinted in Stone Gathering: A Reader (French Press Editions). Additionally, the piece is forthcoming in Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun Loving Country (Swallow Publishing), Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury), and Literature: A Portable Anthology (Bedford/St. Martin’s/Macmillan Learning).

 

 

15 thoughts on ““Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild” in The Norton Reader, 15th Edition”

  2. Tina Sederholm

    It’s a jaw/mic drop kind of piece. Many congratulations from your old writing buddy!

    1. mrsfish1960@yahoo.com

      Aw, thank you, Tina! I hope you’re doing well. One day we’ll write together by the Thames again. xo

  4. Pamelyn Casto

    Wonderful news, Kathy. Please contact me at so we can talk about the possibility of spreading the great news even further.

  6. Pamelyn Casto

    Wonderful news, Kathy. Please contact me at so we can talk about the possibility of spreading the great news even farther.

  7. Nancy Ludmerer

    What wonderful news –and so richly deserved! The piece is extraordinary (along with many others you have written) . . Congratulations.

  8. Ray Nessly

    Congrats, Kathy. It’s a brilliant piece. I’ve posted it on Facebook at least two or three times.
    Cheers, Ray Nessly

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