Full of invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and unusual musings, "The New Brick Reader" is the perfect introduction for those new to "Brick" and an ideal treasury for the magazine's many fans. Founded in 1977, "Brick" features a great many of the world's best-loved writers, and has readers in every corner of the planet. Both up-to-date and deeply engaged with what has come before, the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates opinion, passion, revelation, and the occasional bad joke. This anthology, which collects some of the very best work to appear in "Brick" over the last 20 years, is an essential collection of some of the finest writers at work today.