The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019
An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. 

Over the past year, a group of high school students have held weekly discussions in the basement conference room of a publishing house in San Francisco. Tasked with finding the best, most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of the last twelve months, they pored over hundreds of published poems, stories, comics, and essays. With the help of guest editor Edan Lepucki, they selected the contents of this anthology, a collection of work they feel looks a lot like 2019. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 features comics about war and butts and stories about pizza-delivery women, family, dolls giving birth, anthropomorphic lakes, and more. It was a successful year. Read on to see for yourself.
 
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Garth Greenwell, Nathaniel Russell, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Andrea Long Chu, Deborah Taffa, Renée Branum, and others.
 
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019
An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. 

Over the past year, a group of high school students have held weekly discussions in the basement conference room of a publishing house in San Francisco. Tasked with finding the best, most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of the last twelve months, they pored over hundreds of published poems, stories, comics, and essays. With the help of guest editor Edan Lepucki, they selected the contents of this anthology, a collection of work they feel looks a lot like 2019. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 features comics about war and butts and stories about pizza-delivery women, family, dolls giving birth, anthropomorphic lakes, and more. It was a successful year. Read on to see for yourself.
 
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Garth Greenwell, Nathaniel Russell, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Andrea Long Chu, Deborah Taffa, Renée Branum, and others.
 
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An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. 

Over the past year, a group of high school students have held weekly discussions in the basement conference room of a publishing house in San Francisco. Tasked with finding the best, most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of the last twelve months, they pored over hundreds of published poems, stories, comics, and essays. With the help of guest editor Edan Lepucki, they selected the contents of this anthology, a collection of work they feel looks a lot like 2019. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 features comics about war and butts and stories about pizza-delivery women, family, dolls giving birth, anthropomorphic lakes, and more. It was a successful year. Read on to see for yourself.
 
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Garth Greenwell, Nathaniel Russell, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Andrea Long Chu, Deborah Taffa, Renée Branum, and others.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780358093169
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/01/2019
Series: Best American Nonrequired Reading Series
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 268,431
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

About The Author
826 NATIONAL is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping underserved students, ages six through eighteen, with their creative and expository writing skills. They're located in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

EDAN LEPUCKI: Introduction
PATRICIA SAMMON: Hill Country
CHARLES JOHNSON: Follow the Drinking Gourd
JANE WONG: Curse for the American Dream
MATTHEW HONGOLTZ-HETLING: Barbearians at the Gate
ANDREA LONG CHU: I Worked with Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.
HOLTON ARMS CLASS OF 1984: To the United States Congress
KATE GASKIN: Diagnosis in Reverse
VIET THANH NGUYEN: On True War Stories
GARTH GREENWELL: The Frog King
EMILY RINKEMA: Child A
RENéE BRANUM: As the Sparks Fly Upward
LATIFA AYAD: Arabic Lesson
MADDY RASKULINECZ: Barbara From Florida
NATHANIEL RUSSELL: It’s Natural (selected comics)
UCHE OKONKWO: Our Belgian Wife
ROBIN COSTE LEWIS: Self-Care
DEVIN GORDON: THE BROTHERS AGUAYO
SYLVIA CHAN: Naked and Vulnerable, the Rest Is Circumstance
MIKKO HARVEY: Spring
ANGELA GARBES: The BabyLand Diaries
BRITTENEY BLACK ROSE KAPRI: Two Poems
KEITH DONNELL JR: The Gettysburg Address (Sound Translations 1 and 2)
DEBORAH TAFFA: Almost Human
MARGARET ROSS: Macho
DAVID DRURY: The Lake and the Onion
 
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