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Informationen zum Autor 826 NATIONAL is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping underserved students, ages six through eighteen, with their creative and expository writing skills. They're located in San Francisco. Klappentext An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, a group of high school students have held weekly discussions in the basement conference room of a publishing house in San Francisco. Tasked with finding the best, most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of the last twelve months, they pored over hundreds of published poems, stories, comics, and essays. With the help of guest editor Edan Lepucki, they selected the contents of this anthology, a collection of work they feel looks a lot like 2019. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 features comics about war and butts and stories about pizza-delivery women, family, dolls giving birth, anthropomorphic lakes, and more. It was a successful year. Read on to see for yourself. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Garth Greenwell, Nathaniel Russell, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Andrea Long Chu, Deborah Taffa, Renée Branum, and others. Zusammenfassung An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, a group of high school students have held weekly discussions in the basement conference room of a publishing house in San Francisco. Tasked with finding the best, most revealing, honest, and astonishing writing of the last twelve months, they pored over hundreds of published poems, stories, comics, and essays. With the help of guest editor Edan Lepucki, they selected the contents of this anthology, a collection of work they feel looks a lot like 2019. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 features comics about war and butts and stories about pizza-delivery women, family, dolls giving birth, anthropomorphic lakes, and more. It was a successful year. Read on to see for yourself. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Garth Greenwell, Nathaniel Russell, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Andrea Long Chu, Deborah Taffa, Renée Branum, and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis EDAN LEPUCKI: Introduction PATRICIA SAMMON: Hill Country CHARLES JOHNSON: Follow the Drinking Gourd JANE WONG: Curse for the American Dream MATTHEW HONGOLTZ-HETLING: Barbearians at the Gate ANDREA LONG CHU: I Worked with Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser. HOLTON ARMS CLASS OF 1984: To the United States Congress KATE GASKIN: Diagnosis in Reverse VIET THANH NGUYEN: On True War Stories GARTH GREENWELL: The Frog King EMILY RINKEMA: Child A RENéE BRANUM: As the Sparks Fly Upward LATIFA AYAD: Arabic Lesson MADDY RASKULINECZ: Barbara From Florida NATHANIEL RUSSELL: It’s Natural (selected comics) UCHE OKONKWO: Our Belgian Wife ROBIN COSTE LEWIS: Self-Care DEVIN GORDON: THE BROTHERS AGUAYO SYLVIA CHAN: Naked and Vulnerable! the Rest Is Circumstance MIKKO HARVEY: Spring ANGELA GARBES: The BabyLand Diaries BRITTENEY BLACK ROSE KAPRI: Two Poems KEITH DONNELL JR: The Gettysburg Address (Sound Translations 1 and 2) DEBORAH TAFFA: Almost Human MARGARET ROSS: Macho DAVID DRURY: The Lake and the Onion ...
