"Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009" Booksigning

Monster, a short story by Rebekah Frumkin (Carleton '12), is featured in the 2009 edition of Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), edited by award-winning author Dave Eggers. Described by its editors as an "offbeat but vital anthology," Best American Nonrequired Reading is renowned for bringing together the country's best fiction, journalism, humor, essays and comics while simultaneously introducing a vast readership to dozens of new writers and publications each year. The Carleton Bookstore carries the just-released edition and will host a booksigning event for Frumkin on Tuesday, November 3, from 12-1 p.m.

Frumkin is the 2009 recipient of Carleton's Samuel Strauss Prize for Humorous Writing. Other works of fiction by Frumkin have appeared inThe Common Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Greatest Uncommon Denominator, and Scrivener Creative Review.

Best American Nonrequired Reading is compiled annually by Dave Eggers along with a committee of students from his San Francisco writing center.

Note: The text of this press release was written by Jessica Paxton.