
So far, Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy is my favorite of the lot. Guys Write for Guys Read has too much crap that feels like filler and Noisy Outlaws... is just a little on the weird side for my tastes. Good, but weird. Every Man for Himself sticks to only ten stories, so each story has room to develop into a complete piece, and has an amazing line-up of writers (half of which I've mentioned above). Of course, not every story is phenomenal, but even the one I was most disappointed in--a piece by Mo Willems about kids at a superhero high school that had a great premise but fell apart toward the end--was fun to read. My two favorite stories are one by Walter Dean Myers about a kid who lets his friends talk him into auctioning himself off as a prom date, and another by David Levithan about seventeen-year-old Graham, whose almost-thirteen-year-old brother tells their parents that he will not attend his own Bar Mitzvah unless they allow Graham's boyfriend to come--a noble gesture, but now Graham must come up with the boyfriend he doesn't really have.




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So when these uninterested guys stroll in the library accidentally on the way to the video game megamall, how will they find this collection of short stories? I love libraries, but I'm often intimidated by the process of finding stuff that interests me. I think I'll know it when I see it, but then seeing it at all seems next to impossible when I scan down the hundreds of stacks.
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L, my friend, you need to ask a librarian. We're nice people. We exist to help you find stuff that interests you. Or, of course, you could look in your library's catalog--it's probably even available online. My library has this particular collection under the call number 808.831 M533; I imagine most Dewey-based libraries would have it under a similar number.
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