{"product_id":"9780544579293","title":"The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015","description":"For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers selected the contents of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e2015.\u003c\/i\u003e The writing in this book is very essential, if not required, like visiting the Louvre if you’re in Paris. In any case, nothing in this book takes place in Paris, as far as we can recall, but it does feature an elephant hunt, the fall of a reality-TV star, a walk through Ethiopia, and much more of what Johnson calls “the most important examinations in life.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 \u003c\/i\u003eincludes\u003cbr\u003e LESLEY NNEKA ARIMAH, DANIEL ALARCÓN, BOX BROWN, REBECCA CURTIS, VICTOR LODATO, CLAUDIA RANKINE, PAUL SALOPEK, PAUL TOUGH, WELLS TOWER \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand others\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Adam Johnson, guest editor, teaches creative writing at Stanford University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFortune Smiles, Emporium, Parasites Likes Us,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Orphan Master’s Son,\u003c\/i\u003e which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlayboy,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGQ,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eParis Review,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGranta,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTin House,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104269189360,"sku":"9780544579293","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544579293_p0.jpg?v=1769896219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544579293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}