The best American nonrequired reading, 2003 / edited by Dave Eggers ; introduction by Zadie Smith.

A collection including new fiction, essays, satire, journalism, among others intended for a young audience--high schoolers and college students.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Eggers, Dave
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Series:Best American series.
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Table of Contents:
  • What Sacagawea means to me / Sherman Alexie
  • Common scents / Lynda Barry
  • Littlest Hitler / Ryan Boudinot
  • Tales of the tyrant / Mark Bowden
  • Meticulous grove of black and green / Michael Buckley
  • Visiting hours / Judy Budnitz
  • Things we knew when the house caught fire / David Drury
  • Primer for the punctuation of heart disease / Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Guide to being a groupie / Lisa Gabriele
  • Love and other catastrophes: a mix tape / Amanda Holzer
  • Pretenders / Chuck Klosterman
  • Saint Chola / K. Kvashay-Boyle
  • Rana Fegrina / Dylan Landis
  • Golden chariot / Andrea Lee
  • Stuff / J.T. Leroy
  • Three days, a month, more / Douglas Light
  • Touching him / Nasdijj
  • I'll try anything with a detached air of superiority / from the Onion
  • How Susie Bayer's T-shirt ended up on Yusuf Mama's back / George Packer
  • The ant of the self / ZZ Packer
  • How to write suspense / James Pinkerton
  • Rooster at the hitchin' post / David Sedaris
  • Astroturf: How manufactured "Grassroots" movements are subverting democracy / Jason Stella
  • Lost boys / John Verbos
  • Riot baby (life in South Central Los Angeles) / Daniel Voll.