The best American nonrequired reading, 2002 / edited and with an introduction by Dave Eggers ; Michael Cart, series editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cart, Michael

Eggers, Dave

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Best American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Penn Provenance:

Eggers, Dave (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 219 pages, 39 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Advance reading copy.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Summary:

Presents the finest literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including both fiction and nonfiction dealing with a broad spectrum of subjects from magazines from the "New Yorker" and "Rolling Stone" to the "Onion."

Contents:

The pamphleteer / Jenny Bitner

The lost boys / Sara Corbett

Naji's Taliban phase / Michael Finkel

Generation exile / Meenakshi Ganguly

Speed demons / Karl Taro Greenfeld

Hubcap diamondstar halo / Camden Joy

Toil and temptation / Michael Kamber

Snacks / Sam Lipsyte

Stop that girl / Elizabeth McKenzie

The nice new radicals / Seth Mnookin

Local hipster overexplaining why he was at the mall

Marilyn Manson now going door-to-door trying to shock people

Journal of a new cobra recruit / Keith Pille

My fake job / Rodney Rothman

Fourth angry mouse / David Schickler

Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser

Blood poison / Heidi Jon Schmidt

To make a friend, be a friend / David Sedaris

Higher education / Gary Smith

"Jiving" with your teen / Seaton Smith

Bomb scare / Adrian Tomine.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Dave Eggers.

OCLC:

917891290