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Loading... The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (Best American)by Dave Eggers
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0618570489, Paperback)The Best American SeriesFirst, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 includes Daniel Alarcón • Aimee Bender • Dan Chaon • Daniel Clowes • Tish Durkin • Stephen Elliott • Al Franken • Jhumpa Lahiri • Rattawut Lapcharoensap • Anders Nilsen • Georges Saunders • William T. Vollmann • and others Dave Eggers, editor, is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, and How We Are Hungry, and the editor of McSweeney's. He is the founder of 826 Valencia, a San Francisco writing lab for young people. Beck, guest introducer, whose single "Loser" was instantly labeled an anthem for the slacker generation, is also known for his Grammy Award-winning albums Odelay and Mutations. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I guess I liked about half the stories. Some of the ones that still stir a memory definitely had an impact, but there were others that were just annoying.
The second story, The Death of Mustang Salvaje, was memorable, about a female bullfighter and her struggles with this eminently male sport.
Tiger Mending was short and sweet, as was Manifesto. Free Burgers for Life was interesting but annoying. A Lynching in Stereoscope was very good - two interwoven tales told in parallel.
The Lost Boys was an essay about polygamists in the west and what happens to the boys who are expelled from the groups to improve the ratio of old men to young girls.
Lastly I found the Myth of the Frequent Flier to be interesting, and also Diary of a Journal Reader.
The story that I got stuck on and just forced myself to pick up and finish was They Came Out Like Ants! It was about searching for tunnels where Chinese workers lived and hid in Mexicali. (