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Loading... The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014by Daniel Handler (Editor)
   None. None No current Talk conversations about this book. Oh dear. A new editor and they've gone and removed my favorite part of the book. Not a great sign. But Nathaniel Rich's "The Man Who Saves You from Yourself" was a good read, at least. (  ) JBD1 | Jul 29, 2017 |  Being a collection of various styles made it tough for me to enjoy this completely. I suppose each of the "Best American" collections has some pieces that I skip, don't finish, or read through and wonder why I did. This one had a few more of those than usual. I did not enjoy most of the chapbook works. I make no claim to being a fan of poetry, and the chapbook entries didn't make me any more of one. In any case, I'm glad these writers, and the student reviewers, are doing what they enjoy and wish them success. (  ) sbluerock | Nov 5, 2016 | There were a ton of absolutely amazing pieces in here about all manner of things from the person who gets you out of a cult to articles on Dave Chappelle, to a podcast transcript and some amazing graphic novel pieces. I think my biggest issue ended up being the poetry. So many times the poetry was right after a really strong heavy moving piece and it was just very difficult to switch gears. One thing that this did make me think about is whether we, as a culture, just don't find humor important. There were almost no pieces that were only funny. If this is the best shouldn't there be at least one funny something in here? Do we as a society not think that humor can be the best? Just something to think about. (  ) Rosa.Mill | Nov 21, 2015 | There were a ton of absolutely amazing pieces in here about all manner of things from the person who gets you out of a cult to articles on Dave Chappelle, to a podcast transcript and some amazing graphic novel pieces. I think my biggest issue ended up being the poetry. So many times the poetry was right after a really strong heavy moving piece and it was just very difficult to switch gears. One thing that this did make me think about is whether we, as a culture, just don't find humor important. There were almost no pieces that were only funny. If this is the best shouldn't there be at least one funny something in here? Do we as a society not think that humor can be the best? Just something to think about. ( ) Rosa.Mill | Nov 21, 2015 | There were a ton of absolutely amazing pieces in here about all manner of things from the person who gets you out of a cult to articles on Dave Chappelle, to a podcast transcript and some amazing graphic novel pieces. I think my biggest issue ended up being the poetry. So many times the poetry was right after a really strong heavy moving piece and it was just very difficult to switch gears. One thing that this did make me think about is whether we, as a culture, just don't find humor important. There were almost no pieces that were only funny. If this is the best shouldn't there be at least one funny something in here? Do we as a society not think that humor can be the best? Just something to think about. ( ) Rosa.Mill | Nov 21, 2015 | no reviews | add a review
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0544129660, Paperback)“Lively, eclectic and surprising.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the enormously popular young adult series A Series of Unfortunate Events, takes over as editor for this volume. He will work with the students of 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs to compile new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and other category-defying gems, ensuring that “if you need to fall in love with reading again — or just want a reminder that high school students deserve a lot more than their reading lists give them — then this is the book for you” (Bust). (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:11:28 -0400) In the basement of a small publishing house in San Francisco, fourteen high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and many other things. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014, a collection in which you can take a field trip to the moon, infiltrate a cult, spend sever days in Syria, and drop in on the enigmatic desert community known as Night Vale, among many other possibilities.… (more) |
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