Sara's review
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (The Best American Series (TM))
by Dave Eggers
Sara's review
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (The Best American Series (TM)) by Dave Eggers
Sara's review
rating:
Don't bother with carefully combing through Granta, McSweeney's, and those burdensomely weekly issues of the New Yorker -- this anthology will teach you everything you need to know about being a literary hipster until at least 2009. Despite a fabulous pairing of articles on Iraq, an immaculately written feature on post-Katrina New Orleans, and a nourishing Murakami short, the star in this constellation of post-ironic hipness involves what you need to know about Chuck Norris. That's the effect of this book. Much like the internets from which it culls its quirkiest fodder, the whole is oddly less than the sum of its parts.
