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From Publishers Weekly
Eggers explains this series, now in its third year: "The purpose of this book is to collect good work of any kind—fiction, humor, essays, comics, journalism—in one place, for the English-reading consumer." The editor founded a San Francisco writing lab, where Bay Area high school students "seek out back issues of periodicals, make copies of things they like, and bring them in for everyone to read," and it's these selections that make up this hodgepodge. With subject matter ranging from clowns and popes to transsexualism and zoanthropy, this is an assemblage of diverse delights from Web sites, literary magazines and the mainstream press, with small-circulation publications getting a bigger boost than in previous volumes. Contributors include David Mamet, David Sedaris, Christopher Buckley and Michelle Tea. Mortensen's introduction, one of the strongest contributions, is a haunting lament for lost words, a "painful sense of losing ideas," after his backpack of journals and screenplays is stolen. The book is a zesty bouillabaisse of nonrequired reading that should be required, and Adrian Tomine's multi-paneled cover illustration effectively captures its essence.
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From Booklist
With the help of a group of teenage readers, Eggers has collected an eclectic mix of short fiction, magazine features, and a couple of comics in the third annual edition of the series. This collection manages to be meatier than its predecessors--fewer Onion articles, more New Yorker stories--without sacrificing the series' commitment to engaging reads. The fiction ranges from Daniel Alarcon's brilliant "City of Clowns," which follows a young reporter in Lima researching a story on clowns in the wake of his father's death, to Christopher Buckley's outlandish "We Have a Pope," in which an amoral publicist tries to build enthusiasm for electing an American pope. Equally compelling are such nonfiction pieces as "Transmissions from Camp Trans," a travelogue of an annual transsexual protest/social event/party in Michigan that was originally published in the Eggers-funded Believer. Aside from the rambling, borderline-incoherent introduction by Lord of the Ringsster Viggo Mortensen, there's not a weak piece in this anthology, and with Eggers' name and such solid selections, this volume will appeal to more than the usual fans of story anthologies. John Green
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