Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544569628
Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.
Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0544105745
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 : David Brooks
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0547840543
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
Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0358381754
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 : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544309901
Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category :
ISBN : 1328465802
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 : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0544812174
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 : Andr Aciman
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0358359910
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Crown
Page : 1732 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1984823957
A compilation of 114 classic essays from Gore Vidal. "A marvelous compendium of sharp wit and independent judgment that confirms his status as a man of letters." —Publishers Weekly From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidal’s United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the post–World War II years. United States is an essential book in the canon of twentieth-century American literature and an endlessly fascinating work.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
