Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook569 pages8 hours
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
By Dave Eggers
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 includes
Kevin Brockmeier, Judy Budnitz, Junot Díaz, Louise Erdrich,
Nora Krug, Julie Otsuka, Eric Puchner, George Saunders,
Adrian Tomine, Jess Walter, and others
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 includes
Kevin Brockmeier, Judy Budnitz, Junot Díaz, Louise Erdrich,
Nora Krug, Julie Otsuka, Eric Puchner, George Saunders,
Adrian Tomine, Jess Walter, and others
Unavailable
Author
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including Her Right Foot, The Circle, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. He is the cofounder of Voice of Witness, 826 National, and ScholarMatch, which connects donors and under-resourced students to make college possible. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Read more from Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Can a Citizen Do? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Can a Citizen Do? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 5 to 12) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMost of the Better Natural Things in the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Became Jaguars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lonely Planet An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Bridge Will Not Be Gray Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ungrateful Mammals Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFreeman's: Arrival: The Best New Writing on Arrival Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lonely Planet The Kindness of Strangers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 11 and Up) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
Related ebooks
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Short Stories 2015 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Short Stories 2019 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Essays 2015 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Essays 2013 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Best American Short Stories 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Essays 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Illuminating Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best American Essays 2014 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emperor of the Air: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Venus Drive: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Princess of Herself Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of Vandalism: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fun Parts: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mother Who Stayed: Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Heaven of Animals: Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Newcastle Short Story Award 2016 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnder the 82nd Airborne: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Kansas: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best American Short Stories 2022 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe British Short Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
General Fiction For You
The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King James Version of the Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anonymous Sex Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Candy House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
Rating: 3.6952381076190477 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
105 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This one I was less impressed with. There are some excellent pieces: Sherman Alexie's on identity, Mark Bowden's profile of Saddam Hussein, Chuck Klosterman on a tribute band, and George Packer's on the discarded-clothing market come to mind. Many of the others didn't do much for me, but I'm still glad I read them to get the full range of the collection.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This had some really good pieces, and a number of bad ones. I thought Jonathan Safran Foer inventing punctuation to tell his story was pretty silly. I didn't get the point of that at all. Pinkerton's piece on writing a suspense novel was hysterical, and Leroy's piece on Saddam Hussein was a very good piece. Most of the rest of it was somewhere in between.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I was surprised at how TEDIOUS some of the selections are - more like typing than writing. Part of the "writing for the sake of writing" epidemic that Eggers seems to encourage in a certain population of writers.Some good stuff hidden among the dross, however.