Tell You What: A Nonfiction Giveaway!

When Susanna Andrew and I sat down to write our proposal for that old-fashioned thing, a book on paper, we wanted to make the book we wanted to read. What we wanted was to sit down each summer to a collection of powerful nonfiction from the year that was: an annual scoop of fresh hot words, salty and strong. Like the Best American Essays series (and its more eclectic spin-off, The Best American Non-Required Reading), but – well, our own. 
We knew there’d be more than enough material – New Zealand has so many fabulous writers, journalists, and essayists – and we knew…