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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 younger readers. To that end, guest editor Dave Eggers worked with the students who attend and help teach at 826 Valencia, 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 schooland college, and while there are patterns in what they chose -- for example, a stroing interest in goings-on not just in school but all over the world -- they've also guided this collection toward its utter undefinablility. There are some really funny things, from the likes of David Sedaris, The Onion, and Modern Humorist, and some lighter fiction, as in David Schickler's "Fourth Angry Mouse" and Elizabeth McKenzie's "Stop That Girl," about a hellish trip to Switzerland that a twelve-year-old takes with her grandmother, but there's a seriousness throughout, with stories about immigrants from Mexico in Manhattan, young Afghani men vacillating between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, and the black coach ofa Pennsylvania Amish basketball team. This collection is barely cohesive and often confusing. And this is good. Your own life, we bet, is barely cohesive and often confusing. And given how confused and wayward you are, we will help you do the right thing: read this and love it. The makers of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 insist that you enjoy it and then tell your friends to enjoy it. This will give structure to your life and bounce to your steps. You're welcome.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618246932
ISBN-13
9780618246939
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Book Title
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
Author
Michael Cart
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps659.2.B47 2002
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
Table of Content
Contents Foreword xi Introduction by Dave Eggers xv Jenny Bitner. The Pamphleteer 1 from To-Do List Sara Corbett. The Lost Boys 9 from The New York Times Upfront Michael Finkel. Naji' s Taliban Phase 15 from The New York Times Magazine Meenakshi Ganguly. Generation Exile 25 from Transition Karl Taro Greenfeld. Speed Demons 37 from Time Camden Joy. Hubcap Diamondstar Halo 49 from Little Engines Michael Kamber. Toil and Temptation 61 from The Village Voice Sam Lipsyte. Snacks 75 from Jane Elizabeth McKenzie. Stop That Girl 81 from ZYZZYVA Seth Mnookin. The Nice New Radicals 95 from Spin Local Hipster Overexplaining Why He Was at the Mall 105 from The Onion Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-to-Door Trying to Shock People 109 from The Onion Keith Pille. Journal of a New Cobra Recruit 113 from McSweeneys.net Rodney Rothman. My Fake Job 117 from The New Yorker David Schickler. Fourth Angry Mouse 133 from Zoetrope Eric Schlosser. Why McDonald' s Fries Taste So Good 151 from The Atlantic Monthly Heidi Jon Schmidt. Blood Poison 165 from Epoch David Sedaris. To Make a Friend, Be a Friend 185 from Esquire
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-270741
Dewey Decimal
818.608
Series
Best American Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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by theestatepreser...Apr 07, 2009
Nonrequired? Should Be Required Reading for ALL Adults.
"The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002" is the first of a "best of" anthology series for the 15- to 25-year-old crowd culled from a variety of sources, including e-zines. As a literature professor over 50, I can say that persons of all ages will appreciate these pieces. Nonrequired? Earnest, casual posturing aside, this is a strong collection that includes short bursts of reportage, feature writing, fiction, satire, and even a comic strip. Michael Cart writes with self-consciously casual language in his foreword and Dave Eggers- "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"- replaces his portion of the introduction with a memoir of pool-hopping and awkward sexual desire. The two pieces from "The Onion" like water in this context, easily outweighed by works like "The Lost Boys," "My Fake Job," and "Higher Education." Some under-25 readers may still flee the book, feel targeted, but, as one of the largest age groups of readers, most should appreciate their coming of age. Michael Cart and Dave Eggers do an impressive job collecting these pieces, having the wisdom to include large focus groups of "young adults"- a term the editors dislike- in their quest. "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002" provides the most grown-up young adult fiction excerpts I've ever read. Astute college professors and high school teachers would be wise to include this, and all of the subsequent annual anthologies, in their required reading curriculum.Read full review

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