Dave Eggers is a well-known author, publisher (McSweeney's), screenwriter, and the founder of the very cool literay non-profit 826. Every year he serves as editor on the annual anthology The Best American Nonrequired Reading. This year, Eggers is assisted by Ann Arbor area students, who will help select the stories, comics, and essays that will appear in the collection through the 826MIchigan chapter.
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"The group consists of approximately a dozen students and two facilitators who meet for two hours every week to discuss material that could possibly be included in the anthology. The students represent about six different high schools from the Ann Arbor area. When searching for material, the panel acquires texts in a few different ways.The series is considered “nonrequired” because it is a compilation of more unusual texts."
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