Best American Essays 2012

Name: Best American Essays 2012
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ISBN: 9780547840093

ISBN-10: 0547840098

ISBN-13: 9780547840093

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert Atwan, David Brooks

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New York Timescolumnist and best-selling author David Brooks takes readers on an intellectual journey in this classic collection of the year’s most thought-provoking essays.

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.748
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



The Foul Reign of "Self-Reliance": from The New York Times Magazine



The Crazy State of Psychiatry: from The New York Review of Books



You Owe Me: from Michigan Quarterly Review



Edward Hopper and the Geometry of Despair: from Boulevard



A Beauty: from AGNI



The Good Short Life: from The New York Times Sunday Review



Vanishing Act: from Lapham's Quarterly



Insatiable: from Granta



Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?: from The Oxford American



Duh, Bor-ing: from Commentary



Farther Away: from The New Yorker



Creation Myth: from The New Yorker



Dr. Don: from The New Yorker



Objects of Affection: from Ploughshares



Getting Schooled: from Harper's Magazine



Lawless. My Father/My Husband: from Prism



The Accidental Universe: from Harper's Magazine



The Bitch Is Back: from The Atlantic



How Doctors Die: from Zocalo Public Square



Other Women: from Granta



Humanism: from The Hedgehog Review



Killing My Body to Save My Mind: from Elle



Outlaw: from The New York Times Magazine



Paper Tigers: from New York Magazine



Contributors' Notes


Notable Essays of 2011