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The Best American Essays 2017

Leslie Jamison
The Best American Essays 2017 Book PDF

Author : Leslie Jamison
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544817425

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This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers “essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever” (Publishers Weekly). “The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction to this volume. The essays she has compiled in The Best American Essays 2017 “thrill toward complexity.” From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, and from the beginnings of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, these essays bring us, time and again, to the thorny intersection of personal experience and public discourse. The Best American Essays 2017 includes entries by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Lawrence Jackson, Rachel Kushner, Alan Lightman, Bernard Farai Matambo, Wesley Morris, Heather Sellers, Andrea Stuart, and others.

The Best American Essays 2017

Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2017 Book PDF

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544817333

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

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 : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544569621

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The Best American Essays 2015 by Robert Atwan Pdf

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

The Best American Essays 2016

Jonathan Franzen
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Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 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 : 40,9 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.

The Best American Essays 2013

Cheryl Strayed,Robert Atwan
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Author : Cheryl Strayed,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 2012

David Brooks,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2012 Book PDF

Author : David Brooks,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780547840543

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The Best American Essays 2012 by David Brooks,Robert Atwan Pdf

Nonfiction from Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Jonathan Franzen, and more: “There is not a dud in the bunch. [An] exhilarating collection.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Whether a personal reflection on a wife’s decline from Alzheimer’s, a critique of the overdiagnosis of mood disorders, a lighthearted look at menopause, a friend’s commentary on David Foster Wallace’s heartbreaking suicide, or a memoir of teaching underprivileged children, this collection highlights the best essays of the year with contributions from: Benjamin Anastas • Marcia Angell • Miah Arnold • Geoffrey Bent • Robert Boyers • Dudley Clendinen • Paul Collins • Mark Doty • Mark Edmundson • Joseph Epstein • Jonathan Franzen • Malcolm Gladwell • Peter Hessler • Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough • Garret Keizer • David J. Lawless • Alan Lightman • Sandra Tsing Loh • Ken Murray • Francine Prose • Richard Sennett • Lauren Slater • Jose Antonio Vargas • Wesley Yang “A trove of fine writing on big issues.” —Kirkus Reviews

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 : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781328465801

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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.

Totally, Tenderly, Tragically

Phillip Lopate
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Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780385492508

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Totally, Tenderly, Tragically by Phillip Lopate Pdf

Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And, over the past twenty-five years, tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis, from the first New York Film Festival to the thirty-second, Phillip Lopate has made film his most cherished subject. Here, in one place, are the very best of these essays, a joy for anyone who loves movies.

The Best American Essays 2021

Robert Atwan,Kathryn Schulz
The Best American Essays 2021 Book PDF

Author : Robert Atwan,Kathryn Schulz
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780358381754

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The Best American Essays 2021 by Robert Atwan,Kathryn Schulz Pdf

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz "The world is abundant even in bad times,"guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness."The essays Schulz selected are a powerful time capsule of 2020, showcasing that even if our lives as we knew them stopped, the beauty to be found in them flourished. From an intimate account of nursing a loved one in the early days of the pandemic, to a masterful portrait of grieving the loss of a husband as the country grieved the loss of George Floyd, this collection brilliantly shapes the grief, hardship, and hope of a singular year. The Best American Essays 2021 includes ELIZABETH ALEXANDER - HILTON ALS - GABRIELLE HAMILTON - RUCHIR JOSHI - PATRICIA LOCKWOOD- CLAIRE MESSUD - WESLEY MORRIS - BETH NGUYEN - JESMYN WARD and others

Notes from No Man's Land

Eula Biss
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Author : Eula Biss
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781555970222

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Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays -- teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting for an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicago's most diverse neighborhood. As Biss moves across the country from New York to California to the Midwest, her essays move across time from biblical Babylon to the freedman's schools of Reconstruction to a Jim Crow mining town to post-war white flight. She brings an eclectic education to the page, drawing variously on the Eagles, Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Baldwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Didion, religious pamphlets, and reality television shows. These spare, sometimes lyric essays explore the legacy of race in America, artfully revealing in intimate detail how families, schools, and neighborhoods participate in preserving racial privilege. Faced with a disturbing past and an unsettling present, Biss still remains hopeful about the possibilities of American diversity, "not the sun-shininess of it, or the quota-making politics of it, but the real complexity of it."

The Best American Essays 2018

Hilton Als,Robert Atwan
The Best American Essays 2018 Book PDF

Author : Hilton Als,Robert Atwan
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : American essays
ISBN : 9780544817340

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

These Precious Days

Ann Patchett
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Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063092808

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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

The Next American Essay

John D'Agata
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Author : John D'Agata
Publisher : New History of the Essay
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015056896783

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The Next American Essay by John D'Agata Pdf

A collection of nonfiction essays on such topics as culture, myth, history, romance, and sex includes contributions by such authors as Guy Davenport, Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Susan Sontag. In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, the Search for Marvin Gardens, D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction for each subsequent year. These essays are unrestrained, elusive, explosive, mysterious, a personal lingual playground. They encompass and illuminate culture, myth, history, romance, and sex. Each essay is a world of its own, a world so distinctive it resists definition.

Owning It All

William Kittredge
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Author : William Kittredge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056156360

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Owning It All by William Kittredge Pdf

This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the Seattle Times has said of Owning It All: "You may never again see the American west in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge. [This is a] stunning book." Having grown up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, Kittredge directly confronts the contradictions and myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and love of the land.