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Compared to others, this volume certainly "feels" different than past years under Eggers. As always, there are many gems included but I found that the final selection, a powerful piece about Mike Brown and Ferguson, MO set a strong tone that eclipsed the rest of the book once I was finished. Perhaps it's inevitable and maybe even appropriate that the book ultimately reflects the social climate in the USA during 2016.
I love the variety of voices and topics in these BANR collections, and I love that exhilarated feeling I get from reading them all clumped together. When else do I have a book in my hands that has powerful short stories and harrowing true accounts and thought-provoking conversations and really good comics? Also the cat on the cover of this year's edition helps a lot.
Highly recommended for people wanting to broaden their reading habits but think the Book Riot challenge might be too ambitious. I really like the BANR collections, as they make me a more interesting and intelligent and empathetic person. Favorites this year include Marilynne Robinson with Barack Obama, Michael Pollan, Anna Kovatcheva, Adrian Tomine (loved his in Best American Comics this year and loved it again here), Molly Brodak and Kendra Fortmeyer. -Sarah
this project gets better all the time. i love that Kushner admits to being mostly hands-off with the talented teenagers who curated this volume. really great stuff with more of a sci-fi nod than usual.
A required book for my creative writing class this semester. Good selections overall, though some of the poems escaped me. The Grozny Tourist Bureau by Anthony Marra"Yet in rare spells--like now, as I scour the mildew from her bathroom tiles--clarity surfaces through the murky soup of daily life, and I know that I've purposefully made myself into a crutch she cannot risk discarding. What I don't know is whether I've done so out of love or loneliness, or if in this upside-down world where roof...
Another fantastic addition to the BANR pantheon! I'm late in getting to this and still have to finish the 2017 edition, but here are my favorites from 2016:- The Grozny Tourist Bureau (Anthony Marra)- The Gentlest Village (Jesse Ball)- Death Qualified (Gary Indiana)- The Miracle Years of Little Fork (Rebecca Makkai)- Things I Know To Be True (Kendra Fortmeyer)And, the one that sticks with me the most, The Lonely Death of George Bell (N.R. Kleinfield). Kleinfield manages to capture a sense of won...
The book is comprised of short stories selected by a team of high school students. While I loved the idea of this book (the reason I bought it)...It became a job for me to finish. While there are a few wonderful gems in it, I found mostly unable to hold my attention, hence why it took me forever to finish it. What I learned from this book (sad but true): there are so many good books out there I will no longer spent time paining away at ones that are painful for me to get through.
I consistently enjoy this series for the breadth and variety of genres that are included (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, illustration, journalism, memoir). Among my favorites from the 2016 anthology: "An Oral History of Abdelrahman Al-Ahmar," "How I Became a Prison Gardener," "The Trip Treatment," and "The Grozny Tourist Bureau."
