The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009

by Susan Breen, Marjane Satrapi, Rivka Galchen, Anne Gisleson, David Grann, Denis Johnson, Tom Kaczynski, Yannick Murphy, Matthew Power, Olivier Schrauwen, Nick Twemlow, Castle Freeman Jr., Eula Biss, Philip Connors, Nathan Englander, Nick Flynn, J. Malcolm Garcia, Amelia Kahaney, Rebecca Makkai, Rebecca Bengal, K.G. Schneider, Nick St. John, Michelle Seaton, Dave Eggers, Émile Bravo, Rafael Frumkin, Jonathan Franzen, Tom Breen