{"product_id":"the-best-american-nonrequired-reading-2016","title":"The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. They had some good times. There was a whiteboard in the conference room, and often cartoons were drawn on this whiteboard. The cartoons were of varying quality. By the end of the year, with the help of a similar committee of high school students in Ann Arbor, and their guest editor, Rachel Kushner, they selected the contents of this anthology. \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016\u003c\/em\u003e features stories about Bulgarian spaceships, psychedelic mushroom therapy, and a cyclorama in Iowa. If you don’t know what a cyclorama is, you aren’t alone. Read on to find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 \u003c\/em\u003eincludes N. R. KLEINFIELD,  ANNA KOVATCHEVA, DAN HOY, ANTHONY MARRA, MICHAEL POLLAN, MARILYNNE ROBINSON, DANA SPIOTTA, ADRIAN TOMINE, INARA VERZEMNIEKS\u003cem\u003e and others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Kushner, guest editor, is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Flamethrowers,\u003c\/em\u003e which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and one of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e’s top five novels of 2013. Kushner’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eTelex from Cuba,\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, a winner of the California Book Award, and a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller and Notable Book.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"826 National","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51670153199922,"sku":"9780544812116","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780544812116.jpg?v=1787958965","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/the-best-american-nonrequired-reading-2016","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}