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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 includes Daniel Alarcón, Dan Chaon, Daniel Clowes, Tish Durkin, Stephen Elliott, Al Franken, Anders Nilsen, Georges Saunders, William T. Vollmann and others.

Dave Eggers, editor, is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, and the editor of McSweeney’s. He is the founder of 826 Valencia, a San Francisco writing lab for young people.

368 pages, trade paperback
Houghton Mifflin.
8.25” X 5.5” X 1”