TY - BOOK AU - Cart,Michael AU - Eggers,Dave TI - The best American nonrequired reading, 2002 SN - 0618246932 (hc) AV - PS 689 .B47 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American literature N1 - 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 ER -