{"product_id":"9780544812116","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. \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016\u003c\/i\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.\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 \u003c\/i\u003eincludes N. R. KLEINFIELD,  ANNA KOVATCHEVA, DAN HOY, ANTHONY MARRA, MICHAEL POLLAN, MARILYNNE ROBINSON, DANA SPIOTTA, ADRIAN TOMINE, INARA VERZEMNIEKS\u003ci\u003e and others\u003c\/i\u003eRachel Kushner, guest editor, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers,\u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e’s top five novels of 2013. Kushner’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba,\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, a winner of the California Book Award, and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and Notable Book. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025988862192,"sku":"9780544812116","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544812116_p0.jpg?v=1763713509","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544812116","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}