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Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year´s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.

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BANR 2016 "A wealth of strong material makes The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 valuable reading."- PopMatters "What they have given us is a gift.... One wonders how the world might be different if works in Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required." - USA Today BANR 2015 "[T]his eclectic collection soars more often than it sags...the stories that truly stick are those that are slightly unnerving and offbeat, of which there are many." - USA Today

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