false <![CDATA[The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585797m/41226.jpg 41226 4 Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Dave Eggers, who edits The Best American Nonrequired Reading annually, has once again chosen the best and least-expected contemporary fiction, nonfiction, satire, investigative reporting, alternative comics, and more from publications large, small, and on-line -- Zoetrope, Tin House, the Atlantic Monthly, Bomb, SPX, the New York Times, Texas Monthly, GQ, Iowa Review, Esquire, and others. Read on for "some of the best literature you haven't been reading . . . and it's fantastic. All of it" (St. Petersburg Times). 1992693 14 10 2004 The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 total:699|5:151|4:325|3:195|2:24|1:4| 699 2692 915 50 0 1 false false Sat Feb 09 16:15:58 -0800 2008 Tue May 20 08:23:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 23:41:08 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 23:41:08 -0800 2009
I really enjoy a short story collection that pushes me to read every last...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 12:19:12 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 12:21:39 -0700 2009 1. For starting a pirate store
2. For teaching kids who need an outlet how to write
3. For writing What is the What
And now, for putting together and publishing these compilations of short stories that I would never other...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 01:47:37 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 19:57:48 -0700 2009
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Much later, and I have come back to add that apparently, this clown nearly ran...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:03:36 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:07:09 -0700 2009 "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"City of Clowns" by Daniel Alarcón
"What You Eat" by Ben Ehrenreich
"The Minor Wars" by Kaui Hart Hemmings
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In a world populated with large quantities of excellent writing buried among the even larger quantities of words-words-words, it is wonderful to sit down and read through a selection of materials that others have culled and find a number of stor...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 17:13:46 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 29 07:08:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Feb 12 02:30:51 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 03:39:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri May 15 14:05:40 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 14:05:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 13:24:48 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 13:25:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 08 18:21:49 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 18:22:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 06:02:57 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 17:54:48 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 18:53:57 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 19:56:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Oct 07 09:08:51 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 20:42:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 15 14:48:46 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 22:57:27 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 14:48:46 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=41226