The Best American Essays 2017

The Best American Essays 2017 PDF Author: Robert Atwan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544817338
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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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 2017

The Best American Essays 2017 PDF Author: Robert Atwan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544817338
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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

The Best American Essays 2019

The Best American Essays 2019 PDF Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328465802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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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.

The Best American Essays 2015

The Best American Essays 2015 PDF Author: Robert Atwan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544569628
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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

The Best American Essays 2018

The Best American Essays 2018 PDF Author: Hilton Als
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0544817346
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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

The Best American Essays 2013

The Best American Essays 2013 PDF Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544105745
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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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 2016

The Best American Essays 2016 PDF Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544812174
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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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

The Best American Essays 2020 PDF Author: Andr Aciman
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358359910
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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

The Best American Essays 2021

The Best American Essays 2021 PDF Author: Robert Atwan
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0358381754
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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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

Maeve in America

Maeve in America PDF Author: Maeve Higgins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143130161
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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“If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins.” —Glamour A startlingly hilarious essay collection about one woman’s messy path to finding her footing in New York City, from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins Maeve Higgins was a bestselling author and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old age of thirty-one, she left the only home she’d ever known in search of something more and found herself in New York City. Together, the essays in Maeve in America create a smart, funny, and revealing portrait of a woman who aims for the stars but sometimes hits the ceiling and the inimitable city that helped make her who she is. Here are stories of not being able to afford a dress for the ball, of learning to live with yourself while you’re still figuring out how to love yourself, of the true significance of realizing what sort of shelter dog you would be. Self-aware and laugh-out-loud funny, this collection is also a fearless exploration of the awkward questions in life, such as: Is clapping too loudly at a gig a good enough reason to break up with somebody? Is it ever really possible to leave home? “Maeve Higgins is hilarious, poignant, conversational, and my favorite Irish import since U2. You’re in for a treat.” —Phoebe Robinson

The Next American Essay

The Next American Essay PDF Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: New History of the Essay
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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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.