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

WorkSourceAuthor
"Middle-American Gothic"SpinJonathan Ames
"A Happy Death"Fun HomeAlison Bechdel
"Ghost Children"Creative NonfictionD. Winston Brown
"Rock the Junta"Mother JonesScott Carrier
"American"New Orleans ReviewJoshua Clark
"What is your dangerous idea?"Edge FoundationEdge Foundation
"Selling the General"Five ChaptersJennifer Egan
"Where I Slept"Tin HouseStephen Elliott
"Loteria"Indiana ReviewKevin A. Gonzales
"How to Tell Stories to Children" ZoetropeMiranda July
"Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine"The New YorkerMatthew Klam
"All Aboard the Bloated Boat"BarrelhouseLee Klein
"Love and Honora and Pity and Pride...." ZoetropeNam Le
"Darfur Diaries"Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain & Adam Shapiro
"The Big Suck"Virginia Quarterly ReviewDavid J. Morris
"Stuyvesant High School Commencement Speech"Conan O'Brien
"Humpies"Agni OnlineMattox Roesch
"So Long, Anyway"EpochPatrick Somerville
"Literature Unnatured"American Short FictionJoy Williams

Notes

  1. 1 2 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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