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The Best American Essays 2014

John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Best American Essays 2014 Book PDF

Author : John Jeremiah Sullivan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544309326

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The acclaimed author of Pulphead collects “21 of the year’s most urgent and at times painfully truthful pieces of nonfiction published in the U.S.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay assumes many two-sided forms, and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial. Sullivan’s choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist’s confession and the journalist s reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a Clockwork Orange like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate. The Best American Essays 2014 includes entries by Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, Emily Fox Gordon, James Wood, and others.

The Best American Essays 2015

Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2015 Book PDF

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544569621

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Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.

The Best American Essays 2013

Cheryl Strayed,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2013 Book PDF

Author : Cheryl Strayed,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544105744

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The Best American Essays 2013 by Cheryl Strayed,Robert Atwan Pdf

Curated by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild, this volume shares intimate perspectives from some of today’s most acclaimed writers. As Cheryl Strayed explains in her introduction, “the invisible, unwritten last line of every essay should be and nothing was ever the same again.” The reader, in other words, should feel the ground shift, if even only a bit. In this edition of the acclaimed anthology series, Strayed has gathered twenty-six essays that each capture an inexorable, tectonic shift in life. Personal and deeply perceptive, this collection examines a broad range of life experiences—from a man’s relationship with Mormonism to a woman’s search for a serial killer; from listening to the music of Joni Mitchell to surviving five months at sea; from triaging injured soldiers to giving birth to a daughter; and much more. The Best American Essays 2013 includes entries by Alice Munro, Zadie Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Dagoberto Gilb, Vicki Weiqi Yang, J.D. Daniels, Michelle Mirsky, and others.

The Best American Essays 2011

Edwidge Danticat,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2011 Book PDF

Author : Edwidge Danticat,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780547678436

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The Best American Essays 2011 by Edwidge Danticat,Robert Atwan Pdf

The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others. In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today’s spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, “when we insert our ‘I’ (our eye) to search deeper into someone, something, or ourselves, we are always risking a yawn or a slap, indifference or disdain.” Here are intimate personal essays that examine a range of vital topics, from cancer diagnosis to police brutality, and from devastating natural disasters to the dilemmas of modern medicine. All in all, “the brave voices behind these experiences keep the pages turning” (Kirkus Reviews). The Best American Essays 2011 includes entries by Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens, Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith, Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others.

The Best American Essays 2015

Ariel Levy
The Best American Essays 2015 Book PDF

Author : Ariel Levy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544579217

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The Best American Essays 2015 by Ariel Levy Pdf

“22 contributors explore a wide range of experiences” in this “illuminating, invaluable” anthology edited by the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs (Publishers Weekly). Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. The writers featured in this volume are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marriage, parting with a younger self, losing your sanity to Fitbit, and even saying goodbye to a beloved pair of pants are just some of the experience probed by essays that are unified in the daring of their creation. As Levy notes, Writing around an idea you think is worthwhile—an idea you suspect is an insight—requires real audacity.” The Best American Essays 2015 includes entries by Hilton Als, Roger Angell, Justin Cronin, Meghan Daum, Anthony Doerr, Margo Jefferson, David Sedaris, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit and others.

The Best American Essays

Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays Book PDF

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American essays
ISBN : 1439083878

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The Best American Essays by Robert Atwan Pdf

THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, Sixth College Edition, presents highly regarded contemporary authors at their best. The essays are thematically arranged and selected from the popular trade series of the same name. They also cover common rhetorical modes, including narration and argumentation, providing instructors optimal flexibility with respect to course approach. In the introduction, Robert Atwan offers an overview of various types of essays to prepare students for the readings that follow. To further prepare students, "Essayists on the Essay" offers insightful commentaries about the genre from many of today's top writers.

The Best American Essays

Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays Book PDF

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American essays
ISBN : 0618983228

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The Best American Essays by Robert Atwan Pdf

Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.

The Best American Essays 2004

Louis Menand,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2004 Book PDF

Author : Louis Menand,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0618357092

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The Best American Essays 2004 by Louis Menand,Robert Atwan Pdf

Here is another "splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays" ("Booklist") chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand. "The Best American Essays" once again earns its place as the liveliest and leading annual of its kind.

The Best American Essays 2016

Jonathan Franzen
The Best American Essays 2016 Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544812178

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The Best American Essays 2016 by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

The National Book Award–winning author compiles a “thought-provoking volume” of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly). As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 “was whether an author had taken a risk.” The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one’s family. What’s gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling’s autism and relationships between students and college professors. The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.

The Best American Essays of the Century

Joyce Carol Oates,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays of the Century Book PDF

Author : Joyce Carol Oates,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1606869825

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The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates,Robert Atwan Pdf

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age as experienced by the nation's foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists.

The Best American Essays 2011

Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2011 Book PDF

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547479774

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The editors have compiled a collection of the year's best essays, as published in periodicals.

The Best American Essays 2019

Rebecca Solnit,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2019 Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Solnit,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781328465801

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The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit,Robert Atwan Pdf

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.

The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison
The Empathy Exams Book PDF

Author : Leslie Jamison
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781555970888

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The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Pdf

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.

The Best American Essays 2020

Andr Aciman,André Aciman,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2020 Book PDF

Author : Andr Aciman,André Aciman,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780358359913

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The Best American Essays 2020 by Andr Aciman,André Aciman,Robert Atwan Pdf

Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

Crafting Presence

Nicole B. Wallack
Crafting Presence Book PDF

Author : Nicole B. Wallack
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607325352

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Crafting Presence by Nicole B. Wallack Pdf

Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay that holds promise for writing students, as well as for achieving a sense of common purpose currently lacking among professionals in composition, creative writing, and literature. Wallack analyzes examples drawn primarily from volumes of The Best American Essays to illuminate the most important quality of the essay as a literary form: the writer’s “presence.” She demonstrates how accounting for presence provides a flexible and rigorous heuristic for reading the contexts, formal elements, and purposes of essays. Such readings can help students learn writing principles, practices, and skills for crafting myriad presences rather than a single voice. Crafting Presence holds serious implications for writing pedagogy by providing new methods to help teachers and students become more insightful and confident readers and writers of essays. At a time when liberal arts education faces significant challenges, this important contribution to literary studies, composition, and creative writing shows how an essay-centered curriculum empowers students to show up in the world as public thinkers who must shape the “knowledge economy” of the twenty-first century.