(a) The contributors list is a Who's Who of my favorite authors--John Green, Kelly Link, and Libba Bray sucked me in; the rest were icing on an already-delicious cake. 
 (b) I think I identified with entirely too many of these stories, which is perhaps not the most flattering self-portrait. (John Green's contribution, about a high-school girl coming to terms with the faults--her meekness--that get her bullied and singled out as the Least-Liked Member of Her Class, was particularly, um, resonant.) 
 (c) My copy is an ARC, so I'm missing a lot of the comic entries ("[ART TK:]" on many, many pages), a couple of bios, and Sara Zarr's story. There are worse things. The book is still pretty great, though I wouldn't have minded seeing more from Hope Larson and Brian Lee O'Malley.