Second, a handful of the heaviest pieces are anything but ‘nonrequired’ - they are central documents from the last year detailing ongoing cultural or social changes. Among the witty but grim I’d count Jesse Ball and Brian Evenson, ‘The Deaths of Henry King’, Kathy Fish, ‘Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild’, and Lucy Huber, ‘A Fair Accusation of Sexual Harrasment or a Witch Hunt’. Among the surreal, I’d include Quim Monzo, ‘Divine Providence’, Stacy Tran, ‘A Conversation with Vi Khi Nao’, and Chris, ‘Six Selected Cartoons’, Annie Baker, the excerpt from ‘the Antipodes’, and Benjamin Schaefer, ‘Lizard Baby’. That’s true again this year, but I’m also struck by two other aspects - first, how unfun this collection is - the pieces that seem intended to be lighter are mostly either surreal (which doesn’t do much for me, but may for other readers) or are darkly clever, funny without being light.
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