CHARLES JOHNSON: Follow the Drinking Gourd
JANE WONG: Curse for the American Dream
MATTHEW HONGOLTZ-HETLING: Barbearians at the Gate
ANDREA LONG CHU: I Worked with Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.
HOLTON ARMS CLASS OF 1984: To the United States Congress
KATE GASKIN: Diagnosis in Reverse
VIET THANH NGUYEN: On True War Stories
GARTH GREENWELL: The Frog King
RENéE BRANUM: As the Sparks Fly Upward
MADDY RASKULINECZ: Barbara From Florida
NATHANIEL RUSSELL: It’s Natural (selected comics)
UCHE OKONKWO: Our Belgian Wife
DEVIN GORDON: THE BROTHERS AGUAYO
SYLVIA CHAN: Naked and Vulnerable, the Rest Is Circumstance
ANGELA GARBES: The BabyLand Diaries
BRITTENEY BLACK ROSE KAPRI: Two Poems
KEITH DONNELL JR: The Gettysburg Address (Sound Translations 1 and 2)
DAVID DRURY: The Lake and the Onion
The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee
Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2018