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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected – and most popular – of its kind.

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 is a selection of the best literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals: from The New Yorker, Jane, ZYZZYVA, Vibe, The Onion, Spin, Epoch, Time, Little Engines, Modern Humorist, Esquire, and others. Dave Eggers has chosen the highlights of 2001 for this genre-busting collection that includes new fiction, essays, satire, journalism – and much more. From Eric Schlosser on french fries to Elizabeth McKenzie on awful family to Seaton Smith on how to “jive” with your teen, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 is the first and the best.

Dave Eggers is the authour of You Shall Know Our Velocity! and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the editor of McSweeney’s.

304 pages, trade paperback.
Houghton Mifflin
8.25” X 5.5” X .75”