The best American nonrequired reading, 2002 / 
edited and with an introduction by Dave Eggers ; Michael Cart, series editor. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  2002. 
 - xxii, 273 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
 - Best American series .
<br/><br/> The pamphleteer /  The lost boys /  Naji's Taliban phase /  Generation exile /  Speed demons /  Hubcap diamondstar halo /  Toil and temptation /  Snacks /  Stop that girl /  The nice new radicals /  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 /  My fake job /  Fourth angry mouse /  Why McDonald's fries taste so good /  Blood poison /  To make a friend, be a friend /  Higher education /  "Jiving" with your teen /  Bomb scare /  Selections from Please don't kill the freshman /  Jenny Bitner --  Sara Corbett --  Michael Finkel --  Meenakshi Ganguly --  Karl Taro Greenfeld --  Camden Joy --  Michael Kamber --  Sam Lipsyte --  Elizabeth McKenzie --  Seth Mnookin --  Keith Pille --  Rodney Rothman --  David Schickler --  Eric Schlosser --  Heidi Jon Schmidt --  David Sedaris --  Gary Smith --  Seaton Smith --  Adrian Tomine --  Zoe Trope. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618246932 (hc) 9780618246939 (hc) 0618246940 (pbk.) 9780618246946 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003270741 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 689  / .B47 2002