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(3.85) | 2 | 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 hundreds of pieces from dozens 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. From The New Yorker to the Missouri Review, from Esquire to the American Scholar, the editors of The Best American Essays have scoured hundreds of the country's best periodicals in search of the most artful and powerful writing around. This thoughtful, provocative collection is the result of their search.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 2 mentions » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Gould, Stephen Jay | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Atwan, Robert | Editor | main author | all editions | confirmed | Atwan, Robert | Foreword | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Barzun, Jacques | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Chelminski, Rudolph | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cooper, Bernard | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Delbanco, Nicholas | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ehrenreich, Barbara | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Franzen, Jonathan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Gawande, Atul | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Gould, Stephen Jay | Introduction | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Halberstam, David | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hitchens, Christopher | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hudson-Price, Anne | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Junger, Sebastian | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kolen, Amy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Levy, Andrew | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Mayblum, Adam | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Menand, Louis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Murphy, Cullen | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ofri, Danielle | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Pinckney, Darryl | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Price, Richard | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Queenan, Joe | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sack, John | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Vargas Llosa, Mario | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Vidal, Gore | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wills, Garry | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wolfson, Penny | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions 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 hundreds of pieces from dozens 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. From The New Yorker to the Missouri Review, from Esquire to the American Scholar, the editors of The Best American Essays have scoured hundreds of the country's best periodicals in search of the most artful and powerful writing around. This thoughtful, provocative collection is the result of their search. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - The Tenth Muse / Jacques Barzun
- Turning Point / Rudolph Chelminski
- Winner Take Nothing / Bernard Cooper
- The Countess of Stanlein Restored / Nicholas Delbanco
- Welcome to Cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich
- My Father's Brain / Jonathan Franzen
- Final Cut / Atul Gawande
- Who We Are / David Halberstam
- For Patriot Dreams / Christopher Hitchens
- The Lion in Winter / Sebastian Junger
- Fire / Amy Kolen
- The Anti-Jefferson / Andrew Levy
- The Price We Pay / Adam Mayblum
- College: The End of the Golden Age / Louis Menand
- Out of the Ordinary / Cullen Murphy
- Merced / Danielle Ofri
- Busted in New York / Darryle Pinckney
- Word on the Street / Richard Price and Anne Hudson-Price
- Matriculation Fixation / Joe Queenan
- Inside the Bunker / John Sack
- Why Literature? / Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh / Gore Vidal
- The Dramaturgy of Death / Garry Wills
- Moonrise / Penny Wolfson
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