The Best American Essays

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328465802
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2019 written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547678436
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2011 written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Andr Aciman
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358359910
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2020 written by Andr Aciman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358381754
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2021 written by Robert Atwan and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544105745
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2013 written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544812174
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2016 written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544569628
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2015 written by Robert Atwan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544309901
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2014 written by Robert Atwan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a selection of literary essays from the year 2014 which were originally published in American periodicals.

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544817338
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2017 written by Robert Atwan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in the past year, selected from American periodicals.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781606869826
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays of the Century written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.