Edited by Dave Eggers. The Best American Nonrequired Reading is a selection for young people of the best literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals: from The New Yorker to Jane, Rolling Stone to The Onion, Vibe to various magazines, zines, and journals that, if you're over thirty, you've never heard of. This genre-busting collection includes fiction -- young, coming-of-age, multicultural -- and nonfiction, including articles on popular culture and politics, profiles, humor, satire, even alternative comics.