Reviews

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 by Dave Eggers

missnicelady's review

4.0

A mostly solid collection of fiction, nonfiction, lists, comics, and ephemera, not unlike a really good issue of McSweeney's (not surprising, really). My favorite bits were: Jonathan Franzen's eulogy for his lost friend, David Foster Wallace; investigative journalism pieces by Denis Johnson, J. Malcolm Garcia, and David Grann; the story of a post-Katrina bar in New Orleans trying to stay in business after the owner's death; Nathan Englander on family and memory; and the kids' letters to Obama. There's also a lovely Gorey-esque comic in the back about wanting to be a manta ray.

doomluz's review against another edition

4.0

We read some of the stories in my Creative Writing class
Wild Berry Blue by Rivka Galchen

bookwormmichelle's review against another edition

3.0

As usual, very uneven--parts were terrific, parts I kept wondering "Now why did they put THAT in here?"