"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

ISBN: 061890283X
ISBN 13: 9780618902835
Authors: Dave Eggers, Judy Blume, Rutu Modan, Emily Raboteau, George Saunders, Patrick Tobin, Laura van den Berg, Gene Weingarten, Laurie Weeks, J. Malcolm Garcia, David Gessner, Andrew Sean Greer, Helon Habila, Paul Hornschemeier, Stephen King, Marjorie Celona, Malerie Willens, Jake Swearingen, Raffi Khatchadourian