The Best American Nonrequired Reading along with its crowd-sourced team of high school editors continues to be the best idea/publication to emerge from the mind of Dave Eggers. This year's installment contains wonderful short work from Sherman Alexie, Kiese Laymon, Davy Rothbart and more. Lots more. In short, it's a steal. You're actually losing money if you don't get a copy of this. More blah blah blah
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