Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 Author:Dave Eggers (Editor) "This collection is the product of many heads. The writers included herein are from every background imaginable, and their stories create a crazy quilt of lived time in and around 2001. — This is The Best American Nonrequired Reading, intended to combine the best intentions of the other Best American volumes to create a collection with slightly y... more »ounger readers. To that end, guest editor Dave Eggers worked with students who attend and help teach at his writing lab in San Francisico, giving them hundreds of stories and articles to read and choose among. All of the selections inside have been read and found worthy by a small committee of readers in high school and college, and while there are patterns in what they chose -- for example, a strong interest in goings-on not just in school but all over the world -- they've also guided this collection toward its utter undefinability........"
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 --
Selections from Please don't kill the freshman / Zoe Trope.« less