An eclectic volume introduced by David Sedaris and compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, who don’t leave a stone unturned in their search for nonrequired gems.
Cover art by art by Maurice Sendak.
Introduction / David Sedaris --
War dances / Sherman Alexie --
Like I was Jesus / Rachel Aviv --
Burying Jeremy Green / Nora Bonner --
The carnival / Lilli Carré --
Capital gains / Rana Dasgupta --
The encirclement / Tamas Dobozy --
Man of steel / Bryan Furuness --
Half beat / Elizabeth Gonzalez --
Gentlemen, start your engines / Andrew Sean Greer --
The photographer / Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier --
What, of this goldfish, would you wish? / Etgar Keret --
Fed to the streets / Courtney Moreno --
The tiger's wife / Téa Obreht --
Breakdown / T. Ott --
Ideas / Patricio Pron --
Vanish / Evan Ratliff --
Seven months, ten days in captivity / David Rohde --
Tent City, U.S.A. / George Saunders --
The nice little people / Kurt Vonnegut --
Freedom / Amy Waldman
An eclectic volume introduced by David Sedaris and compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, who don’t leave a stone unturned in their search for nonrequired gems.
Cover art by art by Maurice Sendak.
Introduction / David Sedaris --
War dances / Sherman Alexie --
Like I was Jesus / Rachel Aviv --
Burying Jeremy Green / Nora Bonner --
The carnival / Lilli Carré --
Capital gains / Rana Dasgupta --
The encirclement / Tamas Dobozy --
Man of steel / Bryan Furuness --
Half beat / Elizabeth Gonzalez --
Gentlemen, start your engines / Andrew Sean Greer --
The photographer / Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier --
What, of this goldfish, would you wish? / Etgar Keret --
Fed to the streets / Courtney Moreno --
The tiger's wife / Téa Obreht --
Breakdown / T. Ott --
Ideas / Patricio Pron --
Vanish / Evan Ratliff --
Seven months, ten days in captivity / David Rohde --
Tent City, U.S.A. / George Saunders --
The nice little people / Kurt Vonnegut --
Freedom / Amy Waldman