The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018

Sheila Heti, 826 National

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3.75 · 8 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 02 Oct 2018
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 by Sheila Heti, 826 National
Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year’s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.

Divine Providence / Quim Monzo --
An excerpt from Notes of a Crocodile / Qiu Miaojin --
This Rain / Catherine Pond --
My Family's Slave / Alex Tizon --
Eight Bites / Carmen Maria Machado --
The Deaths of Henry King / Jesse Ball and Brain Evenson --
A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the key of English major / Seo-Young Chu --
In conversation with Vi Khi Nao / Stacey Tran --
Come and Eat the World's largest shrimp cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital / Diego Enrique Osorno --
The Uninhabitable Earth / David Wallace-Wells --
An excerpt from Hunger / Roxane Gay --
An excerpt from Blacks and the Master/Slave Relation / Frank B Wilderson III --
A Tribute to Alvin Buenaventura / Andrew Leland, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes and Anders Nilsen --
Six selected comics / Chris (Simpsons artist) --
Artist's Statement / Kara Walker --
Wave at the People Walking Upside Down / Tongo Eisen-Martin --
Meanwhile, on Another Planet / Gunnhild Oyehaug --
The David Party / David Leavitt --
The Reenactors / Katherine Augusta Mayfield --
Your Black Friend / Ben Passmore --
Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild / Kathy Fish --
Cat Person / Kristen Roupenian --
An Excerpt from The Antipodes / Annie Baker --
A Fair Accusation of Sexual Harassment or a Witch Hunt? / Lucy Huber --
Lizard-Baby / Benjamin Schaefer --
Chasing Waterfalls / László Krasznahorkai --
Love, Death & Trousers: Eight Found Stories / Laura Francis and Alexander Masters --
On Future and Working Through What Hurts / Hanif Abdurraqib --
The Universe Would Be So Cruel / Souvankham Thammavongsa --
A Love Story / Samantha Hunt
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