"This great volume highlights the very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and more" (OK!). Compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, it is thoroughly "entertaining and thought-provoking reading" (Library Journal).
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 includes MARJORIE CELONA - DAVID GESSNER - ANDREW SEAN GREER - RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN - STEPHEN KING - EMILY RABOTEAU - GEORGE SAUNDERS - PATRICK TOBIN - LAURA VAN DEN BERG - MALERIE WILLENS - and others
