"Monster," a short story by Rebekah Frumkin '12 (Libertyville, Ill.), 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.

Frumkin is the 2009 recipient of Carleton's Samuel Strauss Prize for Humorous Writing. Other works of fiction by Frumkin have appeared in The 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.