The Best American Non-required Reading 2017

by Sarah Powell (Editor)

Unknown Binding

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Reviews

[Maribeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

The editor is Sarah Vowell, who is a brilliant writer and researcher. It would be nice to get this changed in your database!

[Catherine Hudson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not finish. I was hoping this book would contain great pieces of fiction writing, because so much of literature classes focus on great literature works or non-fiction. Unfortunately, the pieces that were chosen were all dry and boring. I was hoping for some really great stories, but I just found I didn't care.

[Aaron Ambrose · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really great collection of journalism, fiction and ephemera, including my favorite left-field surprise of all - a fake Werner Herzog twitter feed with a year's worth of heavy soul observations such as:

March 6, 2016: Americans: You do not need standing desks. You need desks that teeter on the edges of open graves for the moment you stop working.

[Hannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty depressing, although I guess it has been some depressing years; politically.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually, I read the BANRR 2019 - but the option wasnt available and I need a count towards my yeraly book challenge so i marked this one as read this year (though I read this one past years :))