The best American nonrequired reading 2015

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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 The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. 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."

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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 The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. 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."

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"A Mariner original."

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Who wants to shoot an elephant? /Wells Tower -- Jack, July / Victor Lodato -- 780 days of solitude / Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd -- Letter to my grandnephew / Christopher Myers -- Dynamite / Anders Carlson-Wee -- The Contestant / Daniel Alarcon -- The Christmas miracle / Rebecca Curtis -- Wear areas / Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton -- Isaac Cameron Hill / Ammi Keller -- You are in the dark, in the car... / Claudia Rankine -- A Speck in the sea / Paul Tough -- Things you're not proud of / Tom McAllister -- Out of Eden walk / Paul Salopek -- An Inventory / Joan Wickersham -- Our neighbor's house / Emily Carroll -- Miracle in Parque Chas / Ines Fernandez Moreno -- An Oral history of Neftali Cuello / Corinne Goria -- Andre the giant / Box Brown -- Remote control / Sarah Marshall -- Wish you were here you are / Rachel Zucker -- The Future looks good / Lesley Nneka Arimah -- Chainsaw fingers / Paul Crenshaw -- Sky burial / Alex Mar -- Four poems / TJ Jarrett -- Fear itself / Katie Coyle -- What the ocean eats / Kawai Strong Washburn  -- The High road / Bryan Stevenson.