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Introduction by Sufjan Stevens xi Q & A by Dave Eggers xix
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Best American Names for Horses Expected to Have Undistinguished Careers 3 from Yankee Pot Roast, written by Mike Richardson-Bryan
Best American Beginnings of Ten Stories about Ponies 4 from Monkey Bicycle, written by Wendy Molyneux
Best American First Sentences of Novels Published in 2006 6
Best American New Words of 2006 8 from The Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, new edition
Best American New Band Names 11
Best American Six-Word Memoirs 12 from Smith
Best American Personals from Around the World 14 from Tin House
Best American Article Titles from the Best American Trade Magazines 17
Best American Creationist Explanations for the World's Natural Wonders 21 from Answers in Genesis
Best American New Animal Plagues 23 from Earthweek, written by Steve Newman
Best American Failed Television Pilots 25 from Channel 101
Best American Names of Television Programs Taken to Their Logical Conclusions 28 from Opium, written by Joe O'Neill
Best American Police Blotter Items 29 from Looptard
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Jonathan Ames. Middle-American Gothic 33 from Spin
Alison Bechdel. A Happy Death 41 from Fun Home
D. Winston Brown. Ghost Children 70 from Creative Nonfiction
Scott Carrier. Rock the Junta 84 from Mother Jones
Joshua Clark. American 99 from New Orleans Review
Edge Foundation. What Is Your Dangerous Idea? 107
Jennifer Egan. Selling the General 131 from Five Chapters
Stephen Elliott. Where I Slept 153 from Tin House
Kevin A. González. Lotería 162 from Indiana Review
Miranda July. How to Tell Stories to Children 187 from Zoetrope: All-Story
Matthew Klam. Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine 204 from The New Yorker
Lee Klein. All Aboard the Bloated Boat: Arguments in Favor of Barry Bonds 227 from Barrelhouse
Nam Le. Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice 237 from Zoetrope: All-Story
Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro. Darfur Diaries 259
David J. Morris. The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground 274 from The Virginia Quarterly Review
Conan O'Brien. Stuyvesant High School Commencement Speech 299
Mattox Roesch. Humpies 305 from Agni Online
Patrick Somerville. So Long, Anyway 317 from Epoch
Joy Williams. Literature Unnatured 330 from American Short Fiction
Contributors' Notes 341 The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee 345 Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2006 349
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Steve Wiley
reviewed The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 on February 20, 2008
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
This was my first time reading one of these, and I wasn't really sure what to expect or how I would feel about it i.e. what would separate *this* Best American anthology from the stuff in all the other 2007 Best American anthologies. I was prepared to be grumpy, but it's good -here's why:
1). You have no idea what's coming: you can start off reading fiction about a couple having a baby, then, fifteen minutes later, you're reading about Barry Bonds and steroid use, then suddenly you're reading a nonfiction piece about visiting Darfur. You really have no idea what's going to be happening inside your head in ten minutes; it's very exciting.
2). I think because high school students put together this anthology, it has a specific kind of humor to it: irreverent, creative, gleeful, occasionally goofy. I don't think you find this kind of humor out there in the world very often and it was comforting.
3). I felt very efficient reading it - like I could be aware of some of the discussions going on out there in the literary world without having to track down a bunch of journals. I came away from most of the pieces feeling interested and entertained. This anthology is good for people who are annoyed by anthologies, and is definitely worth your time.
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