A review by emdashbookparty
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, by Sheila Heti, 826 National
3.0
Not all of these pieces were winners for me, but as usual, it's a pretty solid collection overall. I was happy to see an excerpt from Hunger by Roxane Gay included, and I also enjoyed:
— "My Family's Slave" (Alex Tizon)
— "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major" (Seo-Young Chu)
— Chris (Simpsons artist)'s comics
— "Meanwhile, on Another Planet" (Gunnhild Oyehaug)
— "Your Black Friend" (Ben Passmore)
— "A Fair Accusation of Sexual Harrassment or A Witch Hunt?" (Lucy Huber)
— "On Future and Working Through What Hurts" (Hanif Abdurraqib)
— "My Family's Slave" (Alex Tizon)
— "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major" (Seo-Young Chu)
— Chris (Simpsons artist)'s comics
— "Meanwhile, on Another Planet" (Gunnhild Oyehaug)
— "Your Black Friend" (Ben Passmore)
— "A Fair Accusation of Sexual Harrassment or A Witch Hunt?" (Lucy Huber)
— "On Future and Working Through What Hurts" (Hanif Abdurraqib)