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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
First edition
EditorDave Eggers and introduced by Sufjan Stevens
Cover artistCarson Ellis
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best American Nonrequired Reading
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Preceded byThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 
Followed byThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 is the sixth annual volume in The Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology series. It is edited by Dave Eggers, introduced by Sufjan Stevens, and has cover art by Carson Ellis.[1][2][3] It contains nineteen short pieces of fiction and non-fiction by various authors.[1]

Works included

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Work Source Author
"Middle-American Gothic" Spin Jonathan Ames
"A Happy Death" Fun Home Alison Bechdel
"Ghost Children" Creative Nonfiction D. Winston Brown
"Rock the Junta" Mother Jones Scott Carrier
"American" New Orleans Review Joshua Clark
"What is your dangerous idea?" Edge Foundation Edge Foundation
"Selling the General" Five Chapters Jennifer Egan
"Where I Slept" Tin House Stephen Elliott
"Loteria" Indiana Review Kevin A. Gonzales
"How to Tell Stories to Children" Zoetrope Miranda July
"Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine" The New Yorker Matthew Klam
"All Aboard the Bloated Boat" Barrelhouse Lee Klein
"Love and Honora and Pity and Pride...." Zoetrope Nam Le
"Darfur Diaries" Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain & Adam Shapiro
"The Big Suck" Virginia Quarterly Review David J. Morris
"Stuyvesant High School Commencement Speech" Conan O'Brien
"Humpies" Agni Online Mattox Roesch
"So Long, Anyway" Epoch Patrick Somerville
"Literature Unnatured" American Short Fiction Joy Williams

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Eggers, Dave (editor), The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2007.
  2. ^ "A Rich Cultural Stew Worthy of Taste" Charlotte Observer, Dec. 23, 2007
  3. ^ 'Nonrequired Reading' isn't a should-read, it's an essential read. San Jose Mercury News May 3, 2007
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