The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
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Editor Dave Eggers and introduced by Judy Blume
Cover artist Barry McGee
LanguageEnglish
Series The Best American Nonrequired Reading
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Preceded by The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007  
Followed byThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, a volume in The Best American Nonrequired Reading series, was edited by Dave Eggers and introduced by Judy Blume. [1] [2] The works anthologized are selected by high school students in California and Michigan through 826 Valencia and 826michigan. [3] [4] [5]

Contents


Works included

WorkSourceAuthor
"Y" Indiana Review Marjorie Celona
"The White Train" Virginia Quarterly Review J. Malcolm Garcia
"The Dreamer Did Not Exist" Oxford American David Gessner
"Darkness" Zoetrope Andrew Sean Greer
"The Hotel Malogo" Virginia Quarterly Review Helon Haliba
"The Three Paradoxes"The Three Paradoxes Paul Hornschemeier
"Neptune's Navy" The New Yorker Raffi Khatchadourian
"Ayana" The Paris Review Stephen King
"Queen of the Scottish Fairies" www.nytimes.com Ruth Modan
"Searching for Zion"Transition Emily Raboteau
"Bill Clinton, Public Citizen" GQ George Saunders
"Cake" The Kenyon Review Patrick Tobin
"Where We Must Be" Indiana Review Laura van den Berg
"Pearls Before Breakfast" The Washington Post Gene Weingarten
"The Elegant Rube" Open City Malerie Willens

Notes

  1. Eggers, Dave (editor), The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2008.
  2. Upton, Nick. On my Nightstand, Concord Monitor, Dec. 21, 2008
  3. Committee, The Best American Nonrequired Reading. "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" . Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  4. "Oh, yeah? The 'Best'? Says who?" Chicago Tribune Nov. 23, 2008
  5. "'Nonrequired Reading' isn't a should-read, it's an essential read." San Jose Mercury News