Best American Essays 2004

Name: Best American Essays 2004
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ISBN: 9780618357093

ISBN-10: 0618357092

ISBN-13: 9780618357093

Edition: 2004

Authors: Robert Atwan, Robert Atwan

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Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.Here you will find another "splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays" (Booklist), chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Robert Atwan is the series editor of The Best American Essays. He recently edited Divine Inspiration, a volume of world poetry on the Gospels.



Foreword



Introduction



America, Look at Your Shame! from Oxford American



Envy from Granta



The Last Americans from Harper's Magazine



The Arctic Hedonist from The American Scholar



Caught from The New Yorker



The Unreal Thing from The New Yorker



A Sudden Illness from The New Yorker



Passover in Baghdad from Granta



My '80s from Artforum



My Yiddish from The Threepenny Review



Bix and Flannery from Raritan



Against Cool from Gingko Tree Review



Yarn from Harvard Review



Lifelike from The New Yorker



Rock 101 from The New Yorker



The Mind's Eye from The New Yorker



My Lost City from The New York Review of Books



Arrow and Wound from Harper's Magazine



My Father Is a Book from The Threepenny Review



Bullet in My Neck from The Georgia Review



Amor Perdida from Michigan Quarterly Review



An Enlarged Heart from The New Yorker



Biographical Notes


Notable Essays of 2003