Fiction bundled up

The Best American Nonrequired Reading started in 2002 under the editorial hand of Dave Eggers. He's also the writer behind What is the What?, AND, among other things, he's the founder of McSweeney's.

The annual anthology consists of fiction, essays, and journalism. Each book is put together by a group of high school students Eggers works with in San Francisco. They sift through a bunch of periodicals and journals and come up with a collection of interesting works. Artists such as Beck, Zadie Smith, and Sufjan Stevens have written the introductions.

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